[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] en.wiki migrated to new search backend

[David Gerard]

New search for everyone. not just us!


- d.


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From: Robert Stojnic <rainmansr at gmail.com>
Date: 2009/6/2
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] en.wiki migrated to new search backend
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org>


Just a quick update, a couple of days ago all of this stuff got enabled on
all WMF projects. The delay has mainly been due to us having to order more
hardware (particularly RAM) since my initial estimate of how much we needed
was somewhat off.

Cheers, r.


On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Robert Stojnic <rainmansr at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> We now have english wikipedia fully migrated to new servers / new search
> backend. We cannot fully migrate other wikis until we resolve some hardware
> issues. In the meantime, here is the overview of new features now deployed
> on en.wiki:
>
> 1) Did you mean... - we now have search suggestions. Care has been taken to
> provide suggestions that are context-sensitive, i.e. on phrases, proper
> names, etc..
>
> 2) fuzzy and wildcard queries - a word can be made fuzzy by adding ~ to
> it's end, e.g. query sarah~ thompson~ will give all different spellings and
> similar names to sarah thompson. Wildcards can now be prefix and suffix,
> e.g. *stan will give various countries in central asia.
>
> 3) prefix: - using this magic prefix, queries can be limited to pages
> beginning with certain prefix. E.g.
> mwsuggest prefix:Wikipedia:Village Pump
> will search all village pumps and archives for mwsuggest. This should be
> especially useful for archive searching in concert with inputbox or
> searchbox
>
> 4) intitle: - using this magic prefix, queries can be limited to titles
> only
>
> 5) generally improved quality of search results via usage of related
> articles (based on co-occurrence of links), anchor text, text abstracts,
> proximity within articles, sections, redirects, improved stemming and such
>
> Cheers, Robert
>
>
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