On 11 March 2016 at 16:09, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps you could do this w two queries, one to a composite index that is only updated weekly.
Indeed, there are mechanisms that can make cross-wiki searching more feasible. In fact, one mechanism we are in the very early stages of exploring is merging all the projects in a given language into a single index, so that one could search *all* projects in a language, rather than just a single project in a given language. I have no timeline here; as I said, we're in the very early stages, and of course we have other work on the go at the same time.
Additionally, it would likely return you a bunch of really irrelevant
results,
Make this opt-in, add a different background color for results from the all-language index, & divide their search-relevance by a language-prominence factor...
I plan to worry more about the user experience implications that I mentioned once we're a bit closer to solving the technical feasibility questions. As you've shown, these are definitely solvable problems, but I don't want to put the cart before the horse, as it were. :-)
Thanks, Dan