On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Robert Stojnic <rainma...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <rainma...@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: > > > > 1) 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.. > > > > 2) 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. > > > > 3) 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 > > > > 4) intitle: - using this magic prefix, queries can be limited to titles > > only > > > > 5) 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 > > > >
Is it a pain to get this Lucene search extension running under Windows and IIS? Thanks! -Courtney _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
