On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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Robert Stojnic wrote:
2) interwiki matches. When a query matches a
title from a sister project in
same language, a box on right appears holding the link to the sister project
page. So, for enwiki, a search matching a enwiktionary page will also appear
on the search page.
This is totally awesome!
That is an understatement! :-)
When I saw a wikisource page being offered for a Wikipedia search for
the title of a marginally notable item, it was one of those "omg"
moments. It is so sensible, and very cool.
> The search should also hopefully give better
ranked results than before.
I look forward to seeing how the new search algorithm works for
Wikisource; it sounds like it will be a radical improvement for our
purposes.
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John Vandenberg