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Existence of a search word in an article title should get a very high score, and its existence in the lead section should get a higher score than in the rest of the article; for example, search for composer ranks the composer article only at 6th position, and many less relevant articles before actual composers:
The answer to this request is not easy. The ranking system is an heuristic which is like we can see not perfect. They are different weights for title, keywords and content terms. But there is no difference beetween terms at the beginning of the content and terms at the end. I'm sure we could be better, but I think the results are currently pretty good and I have other priorities. Someone wants to work on the subject and modify the Kiwix code ? Kelson (talk) 10:16, 22 February 2011 (UTC)Reply
IPA chars in template:IPA usually display, however not e.g. in the notes following the table here. They usually display correctly in this table, but not always, e.g. not with "[ˌʔadlo̞ˈjada]". Dan☺16:22, 27 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
We do not have at the end of each article a footer with license, link to the original version, etc... This would be better to have one and to refresh the old one of 0.7. Kelson (talk) 16:23, 29 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
Search results are all in lower case (Fix @Kelson). Strictly from a user perspective it may be unimportant, but it will lay us wide open to criticism from academics such as: "The search results are all in lower case, even in cases like Óengus I of the Picts (shown as oengus i of the picts!). Have the text messaging kids taken over Wikipedia?" Can this be fixed? Walkerma (talk) 05:40, 28 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
Corrupt wikipedia_en_wp1_0.8_45000+_12_2010_alpha1.zim? The downloaded file doesn't open with Kiwix 0.9 alpha7: "Unable to load... Are you sure this is a ZIP file?"RickJP (talk) 12:34, 28 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
I see that it doesn't show up in the index under H, and that the title at the top of the screen is funny. Is that the extent of the problem, or is there a more serious issue that I've missed? Can we fix the indexing, at least?Walkerma (talk) 17:18, 25 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
I have reformulated the problem... but I think also that in the index it should be at the letter H. Maybe you should add this issue as a new point.Kelson (talk) 17:54, 25 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
I don't recall seeing that problem in Version 0.7, so what did we do differently this time? Do we need to add some code to remove this sentence/section when the article is not linked? Is that technically feasible? Thanks, Walkerma (talk) 17:18, 25 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
My mistake - they are simply in a different place than in Version 0.7. CBM used an improved system for the index, and now the non-standard characters are assigned a place in the main index. I think the new index assignments are much better than the old one. NOT A PROBLEMWalkerma (talk) 17:14, 29 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
Bad search result for "The Pianist (2002 film)": "<i>the pianist</i> (2002 film)"; clicking on it doesn't bring up any page.RickJP (talk) 13:56, 4 January 2011 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 13 years ago13 comments5 people in discussion
There is now a beta Kiwix release available for Version 0.8, which hopefully fixes all (or nearly all) of the bugs outlined above. Please test this and report back here ASAP, so we can publish this release! Walkerma (talk) 17:02, 16 February 2011 (UTC)Reply
Is there any way to sort the year articles chronologically instead of alphabetically? For example, "95" comes after "949". Also, why is "Computability theory" filed under "R"? —Designate (talk) 17:57, 16 February 2011 (UTC)Reply
It may be too late to fix the dates for this release, but we'll add it to the bug list for next time. I agree - I hate when indexes do that! I'll look into the R thing - one of our team contributed a lot to that article so they may have some insights. Thanks, Walkerma (talk) 04:46, 18 February 2011 (UTC)Reply
(Fixed in RC1, I was testing with alpha1) The movie search results, such as Toy Story, and perhaps other search results, appear with html italics tags around them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.171.157.4 (talk) 22:52, 16 February 2011 (UTC)Reply
It looks like to be the same issue as for "The Pianist (2002 film)". This issue should be fixed. Have look there http://library.kiwix.org:4218/search?pattern=Toy+Story . I made an error in kiwix-0.9alpha7+wikipedia_en_wp1_0.8_45000+_12_2010_rc1.zip, I made the package with the "old" ZIM file. I only fixed the issue yesterday... so I guess you habe the old alpha1 content. Kelson (talk) 05:08, 18 February 2011 (UTC)Reply
Looks good!
Has anybody looked into the issue of giving a higher search score to article title and lead section? (see above)
Is there a place for small typo fixes? For example:
I think these will be errors in the original online articles. We try to pick the best version of each article, but with about 100 million words in this collection, a few typos are inevitable, unfortunately! Thanks, Walkerma (talk) 21:25, 27 February 2011 (UTC)Reply
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There is now a working version of version 0.8 bundled with Okawix, an offline reader from Linterweb that is an alternative to Kiwix. Please can you take download this and see if it's OK?
This version is for PC (and Mac too, I think). There will also be iPhone/iPad and Android versions available in mid-March. Please leave any feedback below. Many thanks! Walkerma (talk) 21:31, 27 February 2011 (UTC)Reply
Feedback
In my test, it was very slow to load (perhaps 10 minutes). After that I had only one major problem - at one point, when I tried to do a search, it froze and said『XULrunner is not res
ponding』- then the software crashed. When I restarted, it came up immediately and worked fine. I found out that History only shows a search history, not every page I've been to, but I suppose that's what the browser's back button is for. So, I think it's not perfect, but workable enough for a test release. Walkerma (talk) 03:54, 1 March 2011 (UTC)Reply
As mentioned below, I saw some problems in rendering the non-Latin letters - for example Ante Pavelić appears as Ante PaveliÄ (though interestingly it appears OK in the index). When I tried to do a search for Ante Pavelić, XULrunner crashed. Walkerma (talk) 08:00, 3 March 2011 (UTC)Reply
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I've been proposing that we make the release official on March 1st, and we will supply Kiwix and Okawix download links on that day. We believe that the current collections (called beta), although not perfect, are suitable for release. If you know of any reason for us to postpone the release, let us know. Walkerma (talk) 21:34, 27 February 2011 (UTC)Reply
Mmm... Two downloads resulted in a corrupt archive. Okawix did not report an error, just got stuck in "Please wait while your corpus is being installed". Saw the corruption with winrar. I'll try a third time with another browser (the first two were with Chrome).
A small issue, not a test-release stopper, from the on-line version: do we want to remove dablinks and similar header references to articles not included, such as at the top of Percussion mallet ?
Also install from Okiwix's "Download Wikipedia Version 0.8" failed after about 5 hours, without detailing the reason. Is it possible to split the corpus into smaller parts for download? RickJP (talk) 11:10, 2 March 2011 (UTC)Reply
Indeed, a download with IE worked!
The corpus looks good generally; I vote for release.
Some issues:
A match for a search term in an article title is given a high weight in the results, but not in the lead section. Thus a search for composer gives only: 1) Composer; 2) John Adams (composer) and 3) John Barry (composer). Beyond that, only dates; not, for example, Vangelis, Ichirou Mizuki or Antonio Vivaldi. Similarly, a search for "quicksilver" does not give Mercury in the results.
There are still some IPA pronounciation character display problems, for example, in "Washington, D.C."
Is the "sister projects" box at the bottom of "Kitesurfing" a mistake? It has a false link to "images and media from Commons" - the words "images and media" look like a link, but clicking goes nowhere.
This is excellent feedback - thanks! These are all non-trivial issues that we will need to look at; however, for most of them it would delay the release by several weeks and (as you imply) they may not be worth the delay for this release (which is a test release, after all!). I'll go ahead and prepare the stuff postings, for release later on today. MANY thanks, Walkerma (talk) 20:49, 2 March 2011 (UTC)Reply
Two more things:
Reminder: User:Kelson's comment above about a general article footer with license, link to the original version, etc.
Noticed that it is not only IPA characters that are not displayed correctly. For example, the Hebrew letters, and the year range dashes in "Aliyah" are badly displayed in Okawix. In the on-line Kiwix version they are OK.
Bug report: I downloaded this version and loaded it into Kiwix 0.9 alpha 6 (Ubuntu). It works fine, but the index pages (from the alphabetical index) do not load - I only get a blank page when I try to load them.--Eloquence*22:21, 17 March 2011 (UTC)Reply
I see that page, but the links in the alphabetical index (e.g. "A – Aeolic Greek") all take me to a blank page.
With the console, I get errors after starting the application (but no problems from a user perspective), but no errors when clicking on links (but the problem mentioned above). The errors I get on start-up are reproduced below.--Eloquence*23:17, 18 March 2011 (UTC)Reply
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Warning: function toggleNavigationBar does not always return a value
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Warning: test for equality (==) mistyped as assignment (=)?
Source File: zim:///I/gen.js
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Source Code:
while (element = element.parentNode) {
Warning: function collapseTable does not always return a value
Source File: zim:///I/gen.js
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Source Code:
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Warning: assignment to undeclared variable mw
Source File: zim:///I/wikibits.js
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Warning: Error in parsing value for 'filter'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: zim:///I/MediaWiki~Common.css
Line: 979
DisplayBookmarkSet
UIEmptyBookmarkListBox
I have no answer for this bug. This is the first time I read such report for a ZIM file which is not corrupted (should be the case if you used bittorrent)... especially on Ubuntu I work with every day! Kelson (talk) 11:14, 21 March 2011 (UTC)Reply
