Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing the Wikimedia technical search tool

2013-06-18 Thread S Page
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Waldir Pimenta wal...@email.com wrote: Test it here: http://hexm.de/mw-search Nice. Is there a way to pass a query string to it, e.g. http://hexm.de/mw-search?q=%s ? Then we could store this as a bookmarklet with keyword 'ts'[1] and type `ts 49604` to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing the Wikimedia technical search tool

2013-06-17 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
No, DXR doesn't help the CSE. I also doubt it will help restoring full text search on our end, but we'll see. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49674 On the contrary, gitblit is more robust and faster than gitweb, so it allows crawling by search engines. It was crawled very

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing the Wikimedia technical search tool

2013-06-16 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 03/10/2013 07:50 AM, Waldir Pimenta wrote: Hi all, I'd like to announce a recently created tool that might help the Wikimedia technical community find stuff more easily. Sometimes relevant information is buried in IRC chat logs, messages in any of several mailing lists, pages in

[Wikitech-l] Announcing the Wikimedia technical search tool

2013-03-10 Thread Waldir Pimenta
Hi all, I'd like to announce a recently created tool that might help the Wikimedia technical community find stuff more easily. Sometimes relevant information is buried in IRC chat logs, messages in any of several mailing lists, pages in mediawiki.org, commit messages, etc. This tool (essentially

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing the Wikimedia technical search tool

2013-03-10 Thread Platonides
On 10/03/13 15:50, Waldir Pimenta wrote: The motivation for the tool came from a post by Niklas [1], specifically the section Coping with the proliferation of tools within your community. In the comments section, Nemo announced his initiative to create a custom google search to fit at least

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing the Wikimedia technical search tool

2013-03-10 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 03/10/2013 10:50 AM, Waldir Pimenta wrote: Hi all, I'd like to announce a recently created tool that might help the Wikimedia technical community find stuff more easily. Sometimes relevant information is buried in IRC chat logs, messages in any of several mailing lists, pages in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing the Wikimedia technical search tool

2013-03-10 Thread Waldir Pimenta
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not convinced about [[en:MediaWiki_talk:*]] and [[en:Template_talk:*]], they can bring quite a bit of noise (similarly for [[en:Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)]]). I see how interesting discussions could be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing the Wikimedia technical search tool

2013-03-10 Thread David Gerard
On 10 March 2013 21:35, Waldir Pimenta wal...@email.com wrote: Why log them publicly if we don't make them searchable? Either we're committed to being open or we're not... having a public but hard-to-use archive seems somewhat contradictory to me. This is in fact the policy with mailing list