Hi,
So on Tuesday, August 10th I'm going to go ahead and turn on CirrusSearch as the default for mw.org. There's still some bugs[0], and I'm sure people will find more[1].
Once it's default you can revert to the old lucene backend using srbackend=LuceneSearch like you can do now with Cirrus.
-Chad
[0] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=231822&resolution=---... [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&...
Nice! As for next steps, what about using Wiktionary as next "pioneering project" for the new CirrusSearch (first opt-in and then default)? It exists in most languages (we really need to see how the new search works in different languages), it's one of the most impacted projects by the new features (e.g. expanded templates indexing) and at the same time allows to make full-project deploys without impacting some 95 % of our traffic.
Nemo
Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Nice! As for next steps, what about using Wiktionary as next "pioneering project" for the new CirrusSearch (first opt-in and then default)? It exists in most languages (we really need to see how the new search works in different languages), it's one of the most impacted projects by the new features (e.g. expanded templates indexing) [...].
This seems like a good idea to me. Chad / Nik: your thoughts?
MZMcBride
On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 5:29 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Nice! As for next steps, what about using Wiktionary as next "pioneering project" for the new CirrusSearch (first opt-in and then default)? It exists in most languages (we really need to see how the new search works in different languages), it's one of the most impacted projects by the new features (e.g. expanded templates indexing) [...].
This seems like a good idea to me. Chad / Nik: your thoughts?
English Wiktionary is certainly on my list of possible next victims. I don't _think_ I want to flip the switch on all the languages at once though. On the other hand if anyone in the community really really really wants to try it we'd love work with them. I like enthusiasm. And I want to try CirrusSearch against other languages but it wouldn't do much good without someone active in that community willing to test it.
Nik
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