Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback requested on our search APIs

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: >> To really make this awesome we need structured data support for >> Commons with Wikidata. We'll be making more progress on it in the >> second half of this year but there is a lot to do. > > Sure, to really make that awsome, yeah you need wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback requested on our search APIs

> > To really make this awesome we need structured data support for > Commons with Wikidata. We'll be making more progress on it in the > second half of this year but there is a lot to do. > Sure, to really make that awsome, yeah you need wikidata. But we are far away from hitting the point where

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback requested on our search APIs

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 2:19 AM, Gergo Tisza wrote: > On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: > > > Additionally, from the help page, its not entirely clear about some of > > the limitations. e.g. You can't do incategory:Foo OR intitle:bar. > > regexes on intitle don't seem to work ove

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback requested on our search APIs

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: > You can't do incategory:Foo OR intitle:bar. > regexes on intitle don't seem to work over the whole title, only word > level tokens (I think, maybe? I'm a bit unclear on how the regex > operator works). > > intitle is word level though you can d

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback requested on our search APIs

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 8:01 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > I have two recurring thoughts about search lately, since you asked. > > First, multimedia search is absolutely horrible, basically non-existent. > If you go to Wikimedia Commons and try its search functionality and then > compare to any other med

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback requested on our search APIs

On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 02:01 -0400, MZMcBride wrote: > a list of a dozen features that are missing (search by file size, > by color, by image file format, etc.). Also see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101089 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101087 -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrang

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback requested on our search APIs

Dan Garry wrote: >In line with that, one of our primary responsibilities is to ensure that >our search APIs are stable, fast, and easy to use. We'd love to hear from >the people that are using our APIs, so we can learn what you love about >them, what frustrates you, and what we can do to improve th

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback requested on our search APIs

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: > Additionally, from the help page, its not entirely clear about some of > the limitations. e.g. You can't do incategory:Foo OR intitle:bar. > regexes on intitle don't seem to work over the whole title, only word > level tokens (I think, maybe? I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback requested on our search APIs

On 6/8/15, S Page wrote: > On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: > >> The search api (by which I mean query=search in api.php) is somewhat >> poorly documented. You have to dig to find >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch . > > > I recently added https://www.mediawiki.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback requested on our search APIs

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: > The search api (by which I mean query=search in api.php) is somewhat > poorly documented. You have to dig to find > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch . I recently added https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Search_and_discovery wh

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback requested on our search APIs

On 6/8/15, Dan Garry wrote: > Do you use our search API? If so, I'd like to hear from you! > > The Discovery Department > at > the Wikimedia Foundation is tasked with building a path of discovery to > relevant and trusted knowl

[Wikitech-l] Feedback requested on our search APIs

Do you use our search API? If so, I'd like to hear from you! The Discovery Department at the Wikimedia Foundation is tasked with building a path of discovery to relevant and trusted knowledge. In line with that, one of our prim