New search for Wikidot's gonna rock!
09 Dec 2008 21:53
TAGS: dev lucene search wikicomplete wikidot
New search module is on its way to Wikidot (I described this before). Now it's actively tested at Wiki Complete.
I must say it's gonna absolutely rock!
First of all it'll give much more relevant results than before:
- title and tags are much important than pure page content for the indexer
- only 1-3 minutes delay of indexing/searching after an edit (compare to Google's a few days)
- searches for given phrase in all public sites plus all the sites you are member of (including private)!
- results from wikis you are member of appear generally higher in the result list, because the indexer gives them more relevance factor than to similar results from other sites.
More features:
- really fast (typically search is done in just 2 seconds or even less if the result is cached)
- thumbnails of sites (feature to come)
- short activity of site information (feature to come)
- supply the sites to search through in the query with special keyword: site:X,Y,Z — searches for given phrase in three sites: X, Y, Z
- supply the sites to search through as the param to SearchSites module (feature and module to come yet)
Are you convinced yet?
Well done! How soon can we expect this?
λ James Kanjo
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If no fatal bug is found I believe we should have it introduced in a week or two. It will take quite a time to create an initial index of all Wikidot pages. This is why I had to carefully design it's shape and test it first on smaller wiki farm.
hartnell's wiki farm is about 1/100 of Wikidot, so it is quite good to test. There is still a lot of content to search through, but any (project-phase) design error resulting in a need to regenerate of the whole index costs about an hour — not a few days.
Now having most of our ideas for search implemented, it's time to index all Wikidot sites, carry out some final tests and expose the search module to users!
Piotr Gabryjeluk
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This is EXACTLY what I was looking for for my wiki.
http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-116010/enhanced-search-functionality
And I am very excited that this function will soon be implemented.
With crossing 2 millions of items indexed I experience some kind of performance problems, so we need some more work to be put in this before final introducing.
Piotr Gabryjeluk
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That's alright. I am not in a hurry.
Also I hope you don't mind a little suggestion with regards to the functionality:
Can you please also make it able to automatically open the page for an exact title or exact page tag match?
Regards,
BradLee
Excellent work !
Idea:
A drop down list of pages (linked page titles) that are suggested as you enter characters in the search box.
Good luck.
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