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

[Amory Meltzer]

Well, of the five, the fifth is irrelevant, and the first will be obvious
automatically once you start typing.  WP:S has the descriptions copied
verbatim (admittedly poor), but I think we all know how often that gets
viewed.  I'd be neglect to introduce something else to the search bar itself
for fear of clutter, but if you search and don't get redirected to a page,
it would make sense to have a quick tiplist to help users out.

~Amory


On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 18:31, Andrew Turvey <andrewrturvey at googlemail.com>wrote:

> 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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