[QA] CirrusSearch live on test2wiki

[Sumana Harihareswara]

If you have some free time this week, it would be great if you could try
out manually testing the new search at test2.wikipedia.org .  That's a
test wiki, so you can create new pages, add test text to them, and then
check whether the search works properly to find or exclude those pages
in search results.  More information about the schedule and testing is
below.  Some ideas for stuff you could test:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Browser_testing/Test_backlog#Search

http://thebraidytester.com/downloads/YouAreNotDoneYet.pdf (especially
Filenames, Text Entry Fields, Sorting Order, the API, and Security)

And we'd love testing in multiple languages!

Hope this is fun!
best,
Sumana Harihareswara

-- 
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Wikitech-l] CirrusSearch live on test2wiki
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 17:07:00 -0700
From: Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com>
Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org>

Hi all,

If you haven't been following along with development, we're working on
replacing MWSearch/lsearchd with CirrusSearch (powered by
Elasticsearch). Nik and I been working on this for the last several
weeks and now it's ready for wider testing outside of labs.

This is invitation for you to play with some totally alpha software and
report all kinds of bugs you may find. So hop on over to
https://test2.wikipedia.org and mess around with Special:Search and the
API's list search and prefix search.

When testing this, it's useful to compare results from the old and new
engines.  I added some query parameters that let you toggle between
them. Just add srbackend=LuceneSearch|CirrusSearch to force one or the
other.

All bugs can be filed in BZ under the CirrusSearch component[0].
Depending on how things go, we'd like to roll this out for mw.org on the
28th. Happy bug hunting :D

-Chad

[0]
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=CirrusSearch
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