Woogle4MediaWiki/Roadmap

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This is the end user oriented roadmap for Woogle4MediaWiki. There is a also a version for developers with more detailed information.

This page summarizes major plans in mostly non-technical terms. Your input and feedback is appreciated!

Note that this page might neither be complete nor binding. If you desparately want some feature, we might also offer support.

Planned improvements

Bug fixes

• Fix problems with Wikis using index.php?param - style URLs [1]

Dealing with attachments (mostly in WoogleNative)

Woogle currently does support basic indexing for images and PDF files. However there are some small limitations (currently, file updates/deletes will not be monitored) and some other problems. We plan to

• extract a higher percentage of PDF files
• provide users with an overview/testing feature if their PDF can be extracted
• support more attachment types (documents, spreadsheets, presentations)

This applies mostly to WoogleNative, while it might also be beneficial for WoogleRemote (for which workarounds to the problems described exist however).

Planned features

Dealing with redirects and synonyms

Currently, redirect-Pages are listed as separate search results. In the future, they should be shown in the context of the actual page redirected to and thus also used for searching.

Semantic MediaWiki integration

Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is probably the most powerful extension for MediaWiki. It allows to store and query structured data in MediaWiki. There are various avenues for integrating SMW and Woogle

• leveraging semantic data for result display ("structured result snippets")
• levaraging semantic data for search (see also "dealing with redirects and synonyms")
• applying the Woogle principles to SMW
• ...

See also Woogle4MediaWiki/SMW integration

Social search/Result annotation

Wikis are collaborative - but their search feature is typically not. We want to allow users to add/re-rank or remove search results for a given query. See also Woogle4MediaWiki/Woogle Result Annotation Feature

Content request

Wiki users currently can express their information needs/desired content explicitly (e.g. by red links) or implicitly (e.g. by searching). We want to add more explicit means of requesting new content or improvements of existing content. See also Woogle4MediaWiki/Woogle Request Feature

Creating redirects from red links

We observed that many "red links" are due to misspellings or abbreviations and can thus be resolved by a simple MediaWiki redirect. We will extend our current red link popups in this way and plan to create a special page for resolving red links to redirects.