Forum:SH Archive/Search trial

Hi all. We are looking at the site search on Wikia, in particular because we think it may be a factor in slowing the site down. We also hope to improve results.

So we are planning to switch to a Luciene search and would like to try this on Wookieepedia (and Uncyclopedia) to see if it really does improve performance.

WoWwiki has been on this for a while, and are pleased with how it's worked. So trying on a couple of other big wikis is the next step. The plan is to add it here and a) monitor any improvements in site performance and speed, and b) get your feedback, and information on any bugs you see.

The advantages are (outside of possible performance improvements) that it's easier to set up which namespaces are searched by default and that it may be more effective in giving relevant results. The disadvantages are a changed results page with results in titles no longer separated from results in text. There's probably more on each side of the equation, but we should find that out as we go along.

So that's the plan, please let me know what you think. Thanks -- sannse (talk) 12:27, 14 August 2008 (UTC)