Hello, Am Freitag, 30. März 2012 schrieb Wolfgang Hahnl:

Am Donnerstag, 29. März 2012, 23:31:14 schrieb Rajko M.:

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I tried to search some topics on the wiki and all I get is: ---- There were no results matching the query.

We (de-Wiki) watched the same issues.

Is there anyone who can improve this tool?

Yes, write to admin@o.o instead of a random[1] mailinglist ;-) It looks like the lucene search backend is down or broken - Matthew (or someone else), can you please have a look at it? Regards, Christian Boltz [1] well, opensuse-web isn't too random, but still... -- My concern is that Flash seems to be closer to Swiss cheese than anything else. [Vahis in evergreen] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-web+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-web+owner@opensuse.org

Am Montag, 2. April 2012, 13:37:36 schrieb Christian Boltz:

Hello,

the wiki search is still broken (since some days) :-( - at least in en.opensuse.org and de.opensuse.org, but I'm afraid it could affect all wikis.

Can you please fix it?

+1 urgent! Not only that, it is also the server on which the counter (de wiki) is 12.1 offline? Basically, what the wiki not ok. Last flew in a few minutes is in the offline mode while editing posts. I thought that this bug was .... at least did not happen anymore. Thanks for doing! -- \__/ · … Grüße aus dem Ländle … /(0 0)\ · … openSUSE Member … (°_°) _________ \ )\ ||-----------vv| || || · … die "SuS(i)E" sei mit euch, wo immer ihr auch seid … · … wer die "SuS(i)E" nicht kennt, hats leben verpennt …

On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:37:36 +0200 Christian Boltz <opensuse@cboltz.de> wrote:

Hello,

the wiki search is still broken (since some days) :-( - at least in en.opensuse.org and de.opensuse.org, but I'm afraid it could affect all wikis.

Can you please fix it? (The text quoted below includes some hints what could cause the problem.)

Am Freitag, 30. März 2012 schrieb Christian Boltz:

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Am Freitag, 30. März 2012 schrieb Wolfgang Hahnl:

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Am Donnerstag, 29. März 2012, 23:31:14 schrieb Rajko M.:

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I tried to search some topics on the wiki and all I get is: ---- There were no results matching the query.

We (de-Wiki) watched the same issues.

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It looks like the lucene search backend is down or broken - Matthew (or someone else), can you please have a look at it?

the search worked for me just a few minutes ago, when i was searching for "Tumbleweed". But as usual i had to use the "Everything" in the navigation bar to get anything meaningful. regarding the lucene backend, Matthew would need to check for it. darix -- openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux openSUSE is good for you www.opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-web+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-web+owner@opensuse.org

Hey, On 04/05/2012 02:05 AM, Rajko M. wrote:

On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 19:49:31 +0200 Marcus Rückert <mrueckert@suse.de> wrote:

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the search worked for me just a few minutes ago, when i was searching for "Tumbleweed". But as usual i had to use the "Everything" in the navigation bar to get anything meaningful.

regarding the lucene backend, Matthew would need to check for it.

How about changing default to search "Everything" (all namespaces without few that are in essence tools)

Please don't. Especially openSUSE: is one big chaotic info dump again, because nobody gives a shit about the wiki rules. I don't want our distro users to suffer from this just because... Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE http://www.hennevogel.de Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-web+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-web+owner@opensuse.org

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Christian Boltz <opensuse@cboltz.de> 4/15/2012 11:02 AM >>> Hello,

Am Donnerstag, 5. April 2012 schrieb Henne Vogelsang:

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On 04/05/2012 02:05 AM, Rajko M. wrote:

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How about changing default to search "Everything" (all namespaces without few that are in essence tools)

Please don't. Especially openSUSE: is one big chaotic info dump again, because nobody gives a shit about the wiki rules. I don't want our distro users to suffer from this just because...

One more reason to make the search better. (No smiley, I'm serious about that.) IMHO this includes searching all namespaces - and rating the main and portal namespace up so that they are always on top of the search results.

That is a good idea, but as you mention, not really "doable" with the current extension.

I had an interesting IRC discussion with yaloki on this some months ago. The TL;DR summary is something like "lucene itsself is a very good search engine, but the implementation in MediaWiki / the MWSearch extension is just broken".

I wouldn't call it "broken", but it has pretty minimal features. It was, and I think still is, the best searching extension available right now. It sure beats the heck out of the default search, which is why Wikipedia uses it.

Pascal was quite shocked when reading the MWSearch code. It more or less does the equivalent of "SELECT ... WHERE content LIKE '%searchword%'. In other words: lucene has lots of features to get better search results and to influence the search result order - but we don't use them.

Hey, it's all open source. You know what that means :) Seriously though, there really is nothing stopping the wiki team from building a better search extension. We could either customize it to fit openSUSE, or we can add features in general and submit it upstream. Heck, we can even build one from scratch if we want to.