Hello. I am a user of Cantonese Wikipedia (zh-yue). I am seeking for help because there is a major bug in our search function - only articles created on or before 2012 are included in the search result. Admins in Cantonese Wikipedia said that they don't know how to fix it. Please help us. Thank you very much. (Related discussion in Cantonese)
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Can you check how the "New Search" BetaFeature works for you? If it does a decent job of finding stuff then I can switch the whole wiki over to using it as the default. This (not being updated) is exactly the kind of thing that is difficult to fix in the old search and really simple to work on in the new one.
Thanks for your advice. I turn on "New Search" BetaFeature and discover that there seems to be no problem for searching recent articles. Take searching a Han character "辣" (meaning hot & spicy) as an example: In the old search, only 8 results were found dated from Aug 2011 to Apr 2012. In the new search, 163 results are found and the top 50 results contains pretty many articles created during 2013 to 2014.
I'll schedule zh-yue to switch to "New Search" as the primary search backend sometime next week then.
Switched. Let me know (here or in bugzilla) if anyone has any trouble with it.
Thank you. I have just notified the zh-yue community about this improvement.