[Commons-l] Mayflower: Wikimedia Commons media search

[Eugene Zelenko]

Hi!
> Hi, this is a follow-up to my posts regarding "The Ideal Wiki
> Software" on foundation-l, from late January.
>
> I've uploaded my Wikimedia Commons image/media search tool, dubbed
> "Mayflower",  to the toolserver; it's available at http://
> tools.wikimedia.de/~tangotango/mayflower/.
>
> Just to recap, this tool allows full-text searching of the Commons
> database, returning a gallery-based results page, much like Google
> Images and similar services. The main goal was to make a user-
> friendly interface, so that even non-Wikimedians can take advantage
> of it.
>
> As I said back in January, I'm still interested in Brianna Laugher's
> idea of making a gallery-based, full-text search feature available as
> a MediaWiki extension, so that it can take advantage of the existing
> MediaWiki search index and the stability of the main servers.
>
> Any comments and/or suggestions would be most welcome.
>
> (Sorry if this looks like an advertisement; I don't usually advertise
> new tools, but I thought the foundation-l and commons-l communities
> would be interested.)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tangotango

Great tool! Thank you for your work!

I found minor problem. I tried to search for Rakaw/Ракаў/Раков and it
find images only for query Rakaw. Images contain descriptions with all
variants.

May be tool searches only withing references to page titles?

With best regards,
Eugene.