[Mediawiki-l] Announcing Easy Lucene Search for Mediawiki (Brion Vibber)

[Chris Reigrut]

Brion--

I did try to work with the existing Lucene search at the time, but I 
found it too complex and requiring too many other moving parts, 
especially when trying to implement the real-time portions which was a 
real requirement for us.  I'd actually sent you an email back then to 
chat about it, but it must have gotten lost.

I'd love to work with you guys on it, though, if we can find a common 
ground.

Brion Vibber wrote:
> El 5/7/09 12:33 PM, Chris Reigrut escribi?:
>   
>> I'd like to announce the first release of EzMwLucene.  This project
>> provides a simplified Lucene search to Mediawiki. It is designed to be
>> easy to install, configure, and run. It provides real-time, multiple
>> field indexing and searching as well as text indexing of standard
>> attachment types (pdf, xls, doc, ppt, vsd).  The server is a self
>> contained Java application (no application server needed), and the
>> client portion is a standard Mediawiki extension.  It is currently in
>> production on an internal site with over 1000 users running on Mediawiki
>> 1.13.
>>     
> Sounds neat! Indexing of uploaded document contents would be very useful 
> for some sites, and it would be great to have better real-time index 
> update options for those sites with low enough traffic to handle it.
>   
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezmwlucene/
>>
>> I welcome all feedback: questions, suggestions and offers to help
>> improve it!
>>     
> Any interest in helping to roll the new features into the existing 
> Lucene search that's already actively maintained for Wikimedia? This 
> would maximize availability of new functionality and ensure it's used 
> and maintained in the future.
>
> -- brion
>