Last modified: 2014-04-16 16:11:05 UTC
LQT's search uses the 'ondiscussionpage:' feature of Lucene, please implement it in Cirrus before Lucene is removed from WMF production so that LQT search does not break on Wikimedia wikis.
Will do. Right next to ondiscussionpage: it looks like there is also inthread:. Do you need that as well? Do either of these make results that are useful in general search? If so we should document them on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching . That is where I found the features I have implemented.
(In reply to comment #1) > Will do. Right next to ondiscussionpage: it looks like there is also > inthread:. Do you need that as well? alex@alex:/var/www/MediaWiki/Git/extensions/LiquidThreads (master)$ grep inthread * -R alex@alex:/var/www/MediaWiki/Git/extensions/LiquidThreads (master)$ Probably not. (In reply to comment #1) > Do either of these make results that are useful in general search? If so we > should document them on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching . That > is > where I found the features I have implemented. On the English Wikipedia? No, that wiki does not have LiquidThreads.
Honestly its pretty useless on LQT. In my experiance the feature causes more problems then its worth due to the horrid UI. Some sites (Wikinews) use css to hide the search bar entirely due to spam resulting from this feature.
Whether or not the UI is good not having this would still break a feature in mediawiki.org. I'm raising the priority back to normal as this blocks switching to the primary search backend for mediawiki.org, imho.
Well, I made Gerrit change #81601 so that LQT can survive the default changeover. But this is needed before Lucene can be removed from WMF production.
(In reply to comment #3) > Honestly its pretty useless on LQT. In my experiance the feature causes more > problems then its worth due to the horrid UI. Some sites (Wikinews) use css > to > hide the search bar entirely due to spam resulting from this feature. That's because of bug 37801
Lowering importance as we don't have plans to remove Lucene search from production for a while, even for wikis that are using CirrusSearch.
Does this still matter? Are we still using this feature?
Yes. As far as I can remember it's still used when you submit an LQT search form.
We're not going to implement this for Cirrus. Flow will have Cirrus integration. We should use Flow instead. lsearchd will probably be running as secondary for awhile still so the search won't disappear immediately.
