Hi all, I'd like to announce a recently created tool that might help the Wikimedia technical community find stuff more easily. Sometimes relevant information is buried in IRC chat logs, messages in any of several mailing lists, pages in mediawiki.org, commit messages, etc. This tool (essentially a custom google search engine that filters results to a few relevant URL patterns) is aimed at relieving this problem. Test it here: http://hexm.de/mw-search The motivation for the tool came from a post by Niklas [1], specifically the section "Coping with the proliferation of tools within your community". In the comments section, Nemo announced his initiative to create a custom google search to fit at least some of the requirements presented in that section, and I've offered to help him tweak it further. The URL list is still incomplete and can be customized by editing the page http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_technical_search (syncing with the actual engine still will have to happen by hand, but should be quick). Besides feedback on whether the engine works as you'd expect, I would like to start some discussion about the ability for Google's bots to crawl some of the resources that are currently included in the URL filters, but return no results. For example, the IRC logs at bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/. Some workarounds are used (e.g. using github for code search since gitweb isn't crawlable) but that isn't possible for all resources. What can we do to improve the situation? --Waldir 1. http://laxstrom.name/blag/2013/02/11/fosdem-talk-reflections-23-docs-code-a… _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l