Same behaviour at no.wikipedia. Sometimes it even seems like the identical article entry is removed from the search result.
A quick-fix could be to use word frequency or tf-idf from the language, or perhaps from the page your at when you do the search. John On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote: > In the search box, I get suggestions on the fly as I type, and I'm > often impressed by the good suggestions. However, right now at Wiktionary > I get suggestions that aren't the best ones for the given prefix. > > For example, at en.wiktionary.org if I type "lagru" it doesn't > suggest"lagrum", but instead a bunch of inflected and derived > forms: > lagrumshänvisning > lagrums > lagrumshänvisnings > lagrummets > lagrummen > lagrummet > lagrumshänvisningars > lagrumshänvisningar > lagrumshänvisningarnas > lagrumshänvisningarna > > Since these are Swedish entries in the English Wiktionary, > none of these pages get much traffic. Are the completion > suggestions based on traffic stats? In this case, link > count might be a better predictor for best suggestion, > since all derived forms link back to the basic form. > > Not much traffic: 5 page views in 30 days, > http://stats.grok.se/en.d/latest/lagrum > > > -- > Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) > Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
