On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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LuceneSearch is dead, long live MWSearch!
I've made a couple more cleanup fixes to the core search UI behavior, so
namespace selections work more consistently, and have gone ahead and
switched it in as the sole search interface on all Wikimedia wikis.
This means the LuceneSearch extension is officially obsolete. The
MWSearch extension provides a back-end plugin for MediaWiki's core
search user interface, and all further front-end work should be done in
core where it'll benefit everybody.
Note that many Wikimedia sites have put in local JavaScript hacks to add
extra external search options to the form; unfortunately they have used
particular form IDs specific to the old, obsolete extension.
I took the liberty of adapting the English Wikipedia's JS to work with
either case:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=199925186&oldid=194328556
Please feel free to pass that fix on to other wikis.
- -- brion vibber (brion @
wikimedia.org)
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There have been some very vague reports about the fact that the new
search returned less accurate results than previously. I have looked
at it, and it appears to concern searches that include localized
namespaces (Utente:SomeName). The old LuceneSearch extension called
LuceneSearch::replacePrefixes on the search term, while MWSearch does
not. Should this function be added to the MWSearch extension?
Bryan