Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/Backlog/Project/CirrusSearch
Outline edit
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 edit
- All users of Wikimedia cluster
- All third-party users of MediaWiki
Technical details edit
Acceptance criteria edit
- CirrusSearch deployed everywhere on Wikimedia cluster
- LuceneSearch deprecated and CirrusSearch bundled with default MediaWiki package