On 10/13/11 5:47 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > Unfortunately we currently have zero developers working on search (as > far as I know). There are several more significant search bugs that are > also not going to be fixed any time soon. Another issue is that our > search engine is Java while the rest of MediaWiki is PHP. This makes > sense for performance reasons, but makes the pool of potential > developers who are able and willing to work on it much smaller. In other > words, this might get fixed in a few years, but I wouldn't hold my > breathe. In the meantime, it would be good to follow Sarah's lead and > proactively curate the content we have so that there is less potential > for astonishment in our search results.
Yeah; this is really a curation issue and not a search engine issue. Sadly, I'm one of the few people at the Foundation who knows Java or could even work on this, but I expect that there would be much wailing and gnashing of teeth were I to spend much time on this. -- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap