Last modified: 2014-02-08 01:39:32 UTC
Hello, I am a user of Chinese Wikipedia and I find that the search function of Chinese Wikipedia is too weak. For example, when I type "南京水魔方", it can find nothing ([https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%E5%8D%97%E4%BA%AC%E6%B0%B4%E9%AD%94%E6%96%B9&title=Special%3A%E6%90%9C%E7%B4%A2 see here]). In fact, I want a page called "南京欢乐水魔方水上主题乐园" and "南京水魔方" is its abbreviation. It's really inconvenient for users. In contrast, as another online encyclopedia, Baidu Baike has stronger search ability, when I type same word there, it can give me right result ([http://baike.baidu.com/search/none?word=%C4%CF%BE%A9%CB%AE%C4%A7%B7%BD&convertword=%C4%CF%BE%A9%CB%AE%C4%A7%B7%BD&flag=strong see here]). As a result, I think the search function of Chinese Wikipedia need to be improved. In addition, I don't know whether this problem can be found in other language Wikipedia, so please do some check as well.
It's more or less an upstream issue unless we switch to another engine/plugin.
It's nothing about my browser settings. This problem appears in every browser.
I think this problem should be solved by Wikimedia instead of Wikipedia users.
(In reply to comment #3) > I think this problem should be solved by Wikimedia instead of Wikipedia users. I'd say should be solved by Lucene devs.
CirrusSearch has much better support for non-English languages. Given that we're in the process of migrating from Lucene to CirrusSearch, I'm closing this as RESOLVED WONTFIX. If you're still having issues with searching in a Chinese language in CirrusSearch, please do feel free to file a bug under MediaWiki extensions -> CirrusSearch.
