Hi all,
We now have english wikipedia fully migrated to new servers / new search backend. We cannot fully migrate other wikis until we resolve some hardware issues. In the meantime, here is the overview of new features now deployed on en.wiki:
1) Did you mean... - we now have search suggestions. Care has been taken to provide suggestions that are context-sensitive, i.e. on phrases, proper names, etc..
2) fuzzy and wildcard queries - a word can be made fuzzy by adding ~ to it's end, e.g. query sarah~ thompson~ will give all different spellings and similar names to sarah thompson. Wildcards can now be prefix and suffix, e.g. *stan will give various countries in central asia.
3) prefix: - using this magic prefix, queries can be limited to pages beginning with certain prefix. E.g. mwsuggest prefix:Wikipedia:Village Pump will search all village pumps and archives for mwsuggest. This should be especially useful for archive searching in concert with inputbox or searchbox
4) intitle: - using this magic prefix, queries can be limited to titles only
5) generally improved quality of search results via usage of related articles (based on co-occurrence of links), anchor text, text abstracts, proximity within articles, sections, redirects, improved stemming and such
Cheers, Robert
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Robert Stojnic rainmansr@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
We now have english wikipedia fully migrated to new servers / new search backend. We cannot fully migrate other wikis until we resolve some hardware issues. In the meantime, here is the overview of new features now deployed on en.wiki:
...
Great work!. That is 3 steps forward for wikipedia.
Now, I suggest a competition to make a better theme for wikipedia. The current one is very good, in any standard, but is also ugly and have some glitchs.
Just a quick update, a couple of days ago all of this stuff got enabled on all WMF projects. The delay has mainly been due to us having to order more hardware (particularly RAM) since my initial estimate of how much we needed was somewhat off.
Cheers, r.
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Robert Stojnic rainmansr@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
We now have english wikipedia fully migrated to new servers / new search backend. We cannot fully migrate other wikis until we resolve some hardware issues. In the meantime, here is the overview of new features now deployed on en.wiki:
- Did you mean... - we now have search suggestions. Care has been taken to
provide suggestions that are context-sensitive, i.e. on phrases, proper names, etc..
- fuzzy and wildcard queries - a word can be made fuzzy by adding ~ to
it's end, e.g. query sarah~ thompson~ will give all different spellings and similar names to sarah thompson. Wildcards can now be prefix and suffix, e.g. *stan will give various countries in central asia.
- prefix: - using this magic prefix, queries can be limited to pages
beginning with certain prefix. E.g. mwsuggest prefix:Wikipedia:Village Pump will search all village pumps and archives for mwsuggest. This should be especially useful for archive searching in concert with inputbox or searchbox
- intitle: - using this magic prefix, queries can be limited to titles
only
- generally improved quality of search results via usage of related
articles (based on co-occurrence of links), anchor text, text abstracts, proximity within articles, sections, redirects, improved stemming and such
Cheers, Robert
OFF-TOPIC
some fun history perspective.how things was in 2002 http://marc.info/?l=wikipedia-l&m=104216636506472&w=2
oh... this one http://marc.info/?l=wikipedia-l&m=104216623605805&w=2
is amazing how big, complex and professional has wrong the wikipedia. thank guys!
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Robert Stojnic rainmansr@gmail.com wrote:
Just a quick update, a couple of days ago all of this stuff got enabled on all WMF projects. The delay has mainly been due to us having to order more hardware (particularly RAM) since my initial estimate of how much we needed was somewhat off.
Cheers, r.
Tei wrote:
OFF-TOPIC
some fun history perspective.how things was in 2002 http://marc.info/?l=wikipedia-l&m=104216636506472&w=2
oh... this one http://marc.info/?l=wikipedia-l&m=104216623605805&w=2
is amazing how big, complex and professional has wrong the wikipedia. thank guys!
"Search servers" was somehting unthinkable, back then. There was only "the wikipedia server"!
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2002-May/000435.html
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Robert Stojnic rainmansr@gmail.com wrote:
Just a quick update, a couple of days ago all of this stuff got enabled on all WMF projects. The delay has mainly been due to us having to order more hardware (particularly RAM) since my initial estimate of how much we needed was somewhat off.
Cheers, r.
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Robert Stojnic rainmansr@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
We now have english wikipedia fully migrated to new servers / new search backend. We cannot fully migrate other wikis until we resolve some
hardware
issues. In the meantime, here is the overview of new features now
deployed
on en.wiki:
- Did you mean... - we now have search suggestions. Care has been taken
to
provide suggestions that are context-sensitive, i.e. on phrases, proper names, etc..
- fuzzy and wildcard queries - a word can be made fuzzy by adding ~ to
it's end, e.g. query sarah~ thompson~ will give all different spellings
and
similar names to sarah thompson. Wildcards can now be prefix and suffix, e.g. *stan will give various countries in central asia.
- prefix: - using this magic prefix, queries can be limited to pages
beginning with certain prefix. E.g. mwsuggest prefix:Wikipedia:Village Pump will search all village pumps and archives for mwsuggest. This should be especially useful for archive searching in concert with inputbox or searchbox
- intitle: - using this magic prefix, queries can be limited to titles
only
- generally improved quality of search results via usage of related
articles (based on co-occurrence of links), anchor text, text abstracts, proximity within articles, sections, redirects, improved stemming and
such
Cheers, Robert
http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?search=madiowuki Not bad :D
Is all this the stuff that's built into Lucene-search 2.1? I may have to give it another go.
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Robert Stojnic rainmansr@gmail.com wrote:
Just a quick update, a couple of days ago all of this stuff got enabled on all WMF projects. The delay has mainly been due to us having to order more hardware (particularly RAM) since my initial estimate of how much we needed was somewhat off.
Cheers, r.
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Robert Stojnic rainmansr@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
We now have english wikipedia fully migrated to new servers / new search backend. We cannot fully migrate other wikis until we resolve some
hardware
issues. In the meantime, here is the overview of new features now
deployed
on en.wiki:
- Did you mean... - we now have search suggestions. Care has been taken
to
provide suggestions that are context-sensitive, i.e. on phrases, proper names, etc..
- fuzzy and wildcard queries - a word can be made fuzzy by adding ~ to
it's end, e.g. query sarah~ thompson~ will give all different spellings
and
similar names to sarah thompson. Wildcards can now be prefix and suffix, e.g. *stan will give various countries in central asia.
- prefix: - using this magic prefix, queries can be limited to pages
beginning with certain prefix. E.g. mwsuggest prefix:Wikipedia:Village Pump will search all village pumps and archives for mwsuggest. This should be especially useful for archive searching in concert with inputbox or searchbox
- intitle: - using this magic prefix, queries can be limited to titles
only
- generally improved quality of search results via usage of related
articles (based on co-occurrence of links), anchor text, text abstracts, proximity within articles, sections, redirects, improved stemming and
such
Cheers, Robert
Is it a pain to get this Lucene search extension running under Windows and IIS?
Thanks! -Courtney
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