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@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:
- 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..
- 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.
- 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
- intitle: - using this magic prefix, queries can be limited to titles
only
- 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