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List:       wikitech-l
Subject:    Re: [Wikitech-l] Search front-end switched to core UI Wikimedia-wide
From:       "Bryan Tong Minh" <bryan.tongminh () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-03-23 13:44:56
Message-ID: fd5886130803230644le9e1754u427a6cef20721a15 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Brion Vibber <brion@wikimedia.org> wrote:
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>  LuceneSearch is dead, long live MWSearch!
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>  I've made a couple more cleanup fixes to the core search UI behavior, so
>  namespace selections work more consistently, and have gone ahead and
>  switched it in as the sole search interface on all Wikimedia wikis.
>
>  This means the LuceneSearch extension is officially obsolete. The
>  MWSearch extension provides a back-end plugin for MediaWiki's core
>  search user interface, and all further front-end work should be done in
>  core where it'll benefit everybody.
>
>
>  Note that many Wikimedia sites have put in local JavaScript hacks to add
>  extra external search options to the form; unfortunately they have used
>  particular form IDs specific to the old, obsolete extension.
>
>  I took the liberty of adapting the English Wikipedia's JS to work with
>  either case:
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=199925186&oldid=194328556
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>  Please feel free to pass that fix on to other wikis.
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>  - -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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There have been some very vague reports about the fact that the new
search returned less accurate results than previously. I have looked
at it, and it appears to concern searches that include localized
namespaces (Utente:SomeName). The old LuceneSearch extension called
LuceneSearch::replacePrefixes on the search term, while MWSearch does
not. Should this function be added to the MWSearch extension?

Bryan

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