On 9/25/07, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
On 9/25/07, Maury Markowitz maury.markowitz@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/24/07, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
Incidentally, there's no mileage in having access to the default search. It's slow to even maintain the indexes. Anyone using a better search solution would be best off dropping the relevant indexes/tables or otherwise disabling it for performance reasons if nothing else.
Out of curiosity, what is the reason we just don't use Google (or such)? The search capabilities in en.wiki are almost completely useless, IMHO, it can't even find articles with identical names if the capitalization is wrong, and it completely lacks anything like spell checking or reasonable relevance rankling. In order to find articles on en.wiki, I invariably open a second browser to search in, and this strikes me as rather sub-optimal. Is there anything I can do about this at "my end"?
Freshly hacked: Add importScript('User:Magnus Manske/googlesearch.js'); to your monobook.js page. This will add a "google search" button in your sidebar.
Cheers, Magnus
D'oh! There's already one at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Google link]]
Oh well...