This week we shipped a new feature at the request of the mobile apps team, geo search.

(bare bones) Documentation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch#Geo_Search

Quick example usage for bounded geo search:

https://people.wikimedia.org/~ebernhardson/mapsearch.html#Pittsburgh%7Cintit... https://people.wikimedia.org/~ebernhardson/mapsearch.html#San Francisco|hastemplate:"National Register of Historic Places in California" https://people.wikimedia.org/~ebernhardson/mapsearch.html#200km,Moscow%7Cinc...

Direct search example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?fulltext=1&search=incategory%3AKrem...

Also implemented a "boost" version which increases the search score of pages within a particular area, rather than the default which limits to a geographic area. Compare:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?fulltext=1&search=boost-neartitle%3...

vs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?fulltext=1&search=museum