RLS skrev:
Rolf Lampa wrote:
Soundex.
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(Redirects would still take care of "conceptual" differencies in titles, which requires human interaction).
Soundex is different and it would not exactly be creating a YARR system (Yet Another Redirect Redirect).
Soundex is not exact, though;
Exactly, not exact. It would deal with phonetic and redirects with synonyms.
I agree that perhaps a system of phonetically similar searches needs to be implemented for the searchbox or MediaWiki search in general, but there are more advanced algorithms than Soundex available,
Probably, I say soundex just to identify the basic idea.
and that still doesn't address all the issues covered by the alias proposal.
Not all of them no. Redirects would still be very essential.
What doesn't seem very meaningful though is to invent another term (Alias) for essentially the same concept as redirects, especially when the only difference may end up being how, who and when they are created. It is that part I with YARR, yet another redirect system on top of the existing redirect system.
If one want to deal with aliases in essentially a different way than redirects then I'd rather see something like "Synonyms", which also would be placed at the very start of a text, since it could be very useful both for human reading and for search indexing!
If Synonyms are explicitly tagged or marked up (in the article text, as opposed to Redirects, which are defined outside of the article), then they could be regarded even by the HTML-parser, including them (the synonyms) in the keywords etc. Also the internal Indexer could return these among the results for an entirely different search word!
That would be powerful.
Regards,