On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
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LuceneSearch is dead, long live MWSearch!
I've made a couple more cleanup fixes to the core search UI behavior, so namespace selections work more consistently, and have gone ahead and switched it in as the sole search interface on all Wikimedia wikis.
This means the LuceneSearch extension is officially obsolete. The MWSearch extension provides a back-end plugin for MediaWiki's core search user interface, and all further front-end work should be done in core where it'll benefit everybody.
Note that many Wikimedia sites have put in local JavaScript hacks to add extra external search options to the form; unfortunately they have used particular form IDs specific to the old, obsolete extension.
I took the liberty of adapting the English Wikipedia's JS to work with either case: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=199925186&oldid=194328556
Please feel free to pass that fix on to other wikis.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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There have been some very vague reports about the fact that the new search returned less accurate results than previously. I have looked at it, and it appears to concern searches that include localized namespaces (Utente:SomeName). The old LuceneSearch extension called LuceneSearch::replacePrefixes on the search term, while MWSearch does not. Should this function be added to the MWSearch extension?
Bryan