Dear Ambassadors,
I'm looking for volunteer wikis to try out the new search that Chad and
I've been working on called CirrusSearch.
<sales pitch>Be a part of the second wave of wikis and influence new search
features!</sales pitch>
Reality:
* We're reasonably sure CirrusSearch's language support is better than the
current search. [1]
* CirrusSearch indexes expanded templates.
* CirrusSearch indexes articles within a few seconds of when they are
changed. Articles that contain a changed template take longer but they are
also updated.
* Most of the special search syntax is the same. You can read the syntax
here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search/CirrusSearchFeatures
What it means to volunteer:
If you volunteer your wiki we'll turn CirrusSearch on in "secondary" mode
where it'll keep itself up to date but all queries will still go through
the old search. You'll be able to get search results from the new search
engine for comparison by adding a url parameter to the search results
page. If you and the community that you represent aren't immediately blown
away by how much better it works we'll work with you to make it awesome.
At some point, shortly after the new search has been deemed awesome, we'll
switch CirrusSearch to "primary" mode and all queries will go through it.
You'll be able to get at the old search results with a url parameter
similar to the one that you used to test CirrusSearch. If anything goes
wrong we'll switch you back to the old search. We'll keep that option open
for a few months.
So who is ready to help make search better?
Nik Everett
[1]: Some languages (20ish) will see a huge improvement because
CirrusSearch understands their grammar and old search doesn't. Many other
languages will see an improvement because CirrusSearch is happy to search
all kinds of character sets while the current search isn't. Esperanto is
very well supported by the old search so would get worse. eo wikis should
probably wait until we've improved support.
Hi all,
This is just a heads up that we've added GuidedTour and GettingStarted
extensions to a few more wikis today.
* Per bug 60270, we enabled GuidedTour on Czech Wikipedia.
* We enabled GettingStarted and GuidedTour on Japanese Wikipedia, since
translation was complete.
* Per discussion with Swedish editors over IRC, we updated the
GettingStarted configuration for Swedish Wikipedia to include their
copyediting category for task suggestions.
* Per bug 61192, we added GuidedTour to se.wikimedia.org. This is the
Swedish chapter wiki.
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Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
Hello and welcome to your weekly deployments and roadmap update email.
The full schedule for next week is at:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_February_24th
Highlights:
== Week of ==
We will be upgrading Varnish (caching servers) instances to a newer
version (previously deployed/tested at ulsfo) slowly over the week.
== Monday ==
We will be fixing doc.wikimedia.org and integration.wikimedia.org
http->https redirects
* https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/111917/
== Tuesday ==
MediaWiki deploy window, currently following the 1.23 schedule
* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap#Schedule_for_the_depl…
* group1 to 1.23wmf15: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource,
* Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)
** includes the wikidata extension code updates (which includes a new
Lua interface) to Wikivoyage, Commons, Wikisource.
== Thursday ==
MediaWiki deploy window, currently following the 1.23 schedule)
* group2 to 1.23wmf15 (all Wikipedias)
** includes the wikidata extension code updates (which includes a new
Lua interface) to Wikipedias
* group0 to 1.23wmf16 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
== Friday ==
New versions of the iOS and Android applications will be submitted to
their respective markets.
As always, questions welcome,
Greg
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