Thread:Talk:Search/LiquidThreads archive/'Old search' is better/reply (20)

Yeah, that boost-templates thing is more to test the default template boosting. You see, there is a configuration parameter on wiki that can be set to make everyone's searches silently contain some boost. The idea was to allow community curation of the results. Commmons uses it but not that extensively. You'd use boost-templates in your query either when you want to disable the defaults or when you want to test new ones. So its really a "super expert" kind of thing. In addition to that, its a convenient hook for my regression tests to check the feature.