Might be better to send something like this to: opensuse-wiki@opensuse.org On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 04:58, Stephan Kleine wrote:
I don't know who decided on where the new wikis search searches and I don't care but the current way just sucks.
Where MedaiWiki searches - if it's using the default search isn't really all that controllable. MedaiWiki search is rather poor (and acknowledged as such).
E.g. go to the wiki and try to find the former "How to install the NVIDIA drivers" article as shown at http://old-en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA_drivers
E.g. search for "nvidia" and note the first article shown there is something about compiz without the proper one being in sight.
From a human being standpoint I agree the search returns less than useful results. From a MediaWiki search algorithm... it's what I expect. It searches page titles and if it doesn't find an exact match it then guesses what to present based on a page content search. It's a bad guesser.
I've been told that most look for information about the project but I dare to differ cause most ppl - IMHO - look for solutions.
Info about the project or solutions is not the problem here.... it's MedaiWiki's poor default search.
If you think that the most important stuff is to offer information about the project then please split it up into 2 wikis:
That would be a nightmare and a recipe for disaster in my opinion. A better solution would be to refine or change the search engine used in the Wiki. MWSearch and GoogleSiteSearch (or alternatively the Google Custom Search Engine) do a much much much better job at producing useful results. My suggestion is that instead of splitting into two Wikis, we simple fix the broken default search that everyone knows is useless... replace it with something that actually works (meaning that provides more useful results). http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MWSearch http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GoogleSiteSearch http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Custom_Search_Engine C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org