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

[Andrew Turvey]

Great new features, but a bit "hidden". Any way of making these functionalities more obvious to someone using the sidebar search? 

----- "David Gerard" <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote: 
> From: "David Gerard" <dgerard at gmail.com> 
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org> 
> Sent: Tuesday, 2 June, 2009 23:15:13 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal 
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] en.wiki migrated to new search backend 
> 
> New search for everyone. not just us! 
> 
> 
> - d. 
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 
> 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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