[Wikitech-l] geo search is now live

14 Jul 2016

This week we shipped a new feature at the request of the mobile apps team,
geo  search.

(bare bones) Documentation:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch#Geo_Search

Quick example usage for bounded geo search:

https://people.wikimedia.org/~ebernhardson/mapsearch.html#Pittsburgh|intitl…
https://people.wikimedia.org/~ebernhardson/mapsearch.html#San
Francisco|hastemplate:"National Register of Historic Places in California"
https://people.wikimedia.org/~ebernhardson/mapsearch.html#200km,Moscow|inca…

Direct search example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?fulltext=1&search=incategory%3AKre…

Also implemented a "boost" version which increases the search score of
pages within a particular area, rather than the default which limits to a
geographic area. Compare:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?fulltext=1&search=boost-neartitle%…

vs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?fulltext=1&search=museum

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[Wikitech-l] geo search is now live