We currently have an instance on Labs that is working for the sister project search results, but we're missing results returned from Wikispecies.
Can we get Wikispecies results added in, please?
In regards to our upcoming A/B test (T149806), Wikispecies doesn't need to be a part of this test for now, since it'll be extra work.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | debt | T139310 [UI design] Search Results page: re-design page display of search results across languages | |||
| Resolved | debt | T145917 [EPIC] Front end: cross-wiki search results display | |||
| Resolved | Jdrewniak | T151344 Create labs instance for cross-wiki search results testing | |||
| Resolved | debt | T145918 [EPIC] Backend: cross-wiki search results functionality | |||
| Declined | None | T156254 Add wikispecies into inter-wiki search indexes |
Sure I think we can.
What's the plan for production usage, will we add wikispecies only for enwiki?
We currently have 2 ways to configure interwiki search
We use the manual method on http://sistersearch.wmflabs.org/ but we plan to use the automatic method for production. Depending on what we want to do in production we may need to adapt the backend to support this "exception".
There are complexities to including it since it's a special kind of project that doesn't have a language, but as @debt notes it's definitely worth doing.
Moving this to the backlog board - we're not sure of the actual need for this project being added to the sister project search results. The project doesn't seem to be used that much.
Based on community RfC and feedback, we'll decline adding wikispecies to the sister project snippets.