How does Wikimedia add Redirects + Section links into its search results?
How does Wikimedia add redirects + section links into their search results?
For example, if you search the term 'maderia portugal' you get something similar to the following:
- Ribeira Brava, Madeira (redirect from Ribeira Brava, Portugal)
- Boal (grape) (section Maderia Boal)
By default, Lucene neither strips the formatting nor presents these additional links - which forces the user to the top of the page, having to either find the section they were looking for in table of contents or scroll through the page.
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That's not possible with the standard sql search. IIRC, you need an indexing search engine such as Lucene
Hi, sorry I forgot to mention
I am using the following:
- MediaWiki 1.19.1
- PHP 5.4.5 (apache2handler)
- MySQL 5.5.25a-log
- Lucene 2.1
Update guys (original IP 50.90.206.233, same person): I talked to Rainman via email and he was able to help me out a bit.
Basically what he said was that the feature I am requesting is actually enabled with the $wgLuceneSearchVersion = 2.1; parameter (he designed these features to be included).
However, unfortunately for me, this does not appear to be working at all. In fact, I have tried setting it manually in the MWSearch.php file and it's still not acting as such. Interestingly, search itself seems to work (confirmed by disabling Lsearch daemon will suddenly yield 0 results) - it's just the highlighting that isn't working - it neither strips markup nor generates the links. I am thinking possibly there is a problem with my java installation as when I run the ./configure script off of a fresh ls2 install it brings several incorrect items in the initial config files that I must go and correct by hand (seems to be an escape char because it starts with [1034h on each line that it's supposed to auto-generate)
I hope this helps some of you with your troubleshooting; in the meantime I will post back when I find out more.
Guys it's totally working now!
Rolled back from SVN version of Lucene-Search 2.1 to the git version; had to restart as well because the service from the old version was stuck in memory + couldn't kill it - worked like a charm, just like Wikipedia search!
I want to give a huge shoutout to Rainman here who was extremely helpful, even taking time out of his extremely busy schedule to assist a noobie.
Also the rest of the #wikimedia staff were very patient with me when I was asking in IRC, and did their best to point me in the right direction.
Cheers, hope this helps someone else as much everyone has for me. :)
