It used to be a Google search box and it worked even worse than it does
now. As far as I know the search is currently handled via Sphinx so
there’s plenty of options for tuning it, for example I think it’d be a
lot better if it was configured to do partial word matching on the title
and give that more weight than the body.
Experimentation should lead to much improved results.
The biggest problem, though, is that when searching in the search box at
the top of the wiki you’re taken to the search page but not shown any
results.
No the design isn’t fine. It looks like something right outta the cold
war. What’s wrong with you??
The cold war is over and is fair game for retro-design inspiration.
I wouldn’t be opposed to some design efforts on the wiki (there are lots
of pages that could use some layout help), but I’m not interested in
changing it to look like craigslist or gmail. We had something like
that previously when we were on MoinMoin, and the change to the new
design was generally welcomed.
Saw this topic through the mailing list, thought i’d chime in…
For one of my sites I had to engineer an algorithmic SQL query,
currently it’s set to search through 3 different tables and return a
list of combined results. I’d love to work with Cliff if he’s interested
:] could have a pretty sweet search section.
Is it possible to make the wiki look more like nginx.org? Like
neutral, clean and simple?
If you have a mockup you want to share, I’m not opposed to discussing
it. But be ready to do some work, and be prepared to have some of that
work rejected or criticized.
When you say “is it possible”, well of course it is. But realize that
someone, somewhere, has to do the actual work, and if you’re not
able/willing to commit to at least some of that work then it’s just idle
chatter.