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Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/Backlog/Project/CirrusSearch

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Outline

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CirrusSearch has many user-facing improvements over LuceneSearch:

  • Changes to articles reflected in search results much faster
  • Built-in better support for languages than LuceneSearch, including support for many languages that were previously unsupported
  • Templates expanded, so transcluded text can be included in search results

Stakeholders

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  • All users of Wikimedia cluster
  • All third-party users of MediaWiki

Technical details

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Acceptance criteria

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  • CirrusSearch deployed everywhere on Wikimedia cluster
  • LuceneSearch deprecated and CirrusSearch bundled with default MediaWiki package

Assessment of difficulty

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