[Toolserver-l] Experimental: Live template value search

[James Hare]

I see "Live", and then I see "Search", and then I think this has to do with
Microsoft...

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Magnus Manske
<magnusmanske at googlemail.com>wrote:

> I have set up a highly experimental (read: pre-pre-alpha) tool on the
> toolserver to search for combinations of key/value pairs in templates.
> Like TemplateTiger, but for the live site (one day...)
>
> URL:
> http://toolserver.org/~magnus/knights_template.php<http://toolserver.org/%7Emagnus/knights_template.php>
> (as in "Knights Templar", sorry, couldn't resist)
>
> What does it do (or should do):
> Find actors on Wikipedia that have a book by publisher McFarland cited
> as source? No problem:
> http://tinyurl.com/chadva
> (will take a few seconds)
>
> All templates used on [[Roy Scheider]], with key/value pairs:
> http://tinyurl.com/dkpbh7
>
>
> Things that need fixing (like, everything):
> * Slooow
> * Only en.wikipedia
> * Only 16K pages indexed at the moment (some Recent Changes snapshots)
> * Only templates used directly in the article are indexed
> * Needs continuous update (can run on cron, but disabled because text
> retrieval and DB storage too slow to keep up with RC)
> * Needs better query interface
> * Might cause database size problems
>
> All in all, it would be much better directly integrated into MediaWiki
> (no need for text retrieval/parsing, no bulk updates). But I've been
> saying that for years, at least this is a first attempt.
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
>
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