On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Russavia russavia.wikipedia@gmail.comwrote:
I understand the new search is currently being worked on and refined, and will obviously be rolled out across all projects in a timeframe I am not too sure of. Can we get that timeframe/update on where this project is at, and when those working on it expect it to be "stable".
Once new search is working, the first enhancement to the search should be a clustering feature.[3] Wouldn't such a feature pretty much solve the problem that we currently have with search, and which won't be solved by the "out-of-the-box" search that is being worked on now.
Just for a quick status update on the search project for those who might not be following it.
We're currently live on all non-Wikipedias, non-Commons, non-Meta and non-Incubator as the primary search engine and have been for a little while now. The Wikipedias and the 3 misc. projects I mentioned above all have the new search available as a Beta Feature. We've had many thousands of users trying things out and the feedback has been very positive thus far.
(shameless plug to please give feedback on [[mw:Talk:Search]] or Bugzilla. Nothing helps us find bugs and get them fixed faster than user feedback)
We could probably swap the remaining non-English Wikipedias, Meta and Incubator into having the new search engine as their primary without worrying about performance. Commons too, possibly, but we'd have to keep an eye on things. enwiki we know we can't quite handle yet but we're working on it.
Vague timelines suck I know, but trying to get the performance we need out of Elasticsearch is a multifaceted problem and we've been trying to roll this out with the minimal amount of disruption to everyone as possible.
-Chad