Wikimedia technical search

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This page contains the list of URLs used for the custom Google search for all MediaWiki-related resources. It can search all the resources simultaneously, or restrict the results even further to one of several categories: Announcements, Blogs, Documentation, Source code, Discussion, Code commits, and Bugs.

The original motivation came from this blog post (section "Coping with the proliferation of tools within your community") and the discussion in the post's comments section.

You can edit the list below at will, as it will be sync'ed manually. Please suggest improvements (or report problems) on the talk page.

Included URLs

Note: Normal search will include all sites below, sorted by relevance. The topic-specific tabs ("Source code", "Documentation", etc.) will restrict the results to URLs that match the entries on that category.

mediawiki.org/wiki/*
github.com/wikimedia/*

# Bugs
bugzilla.wikimedia.org/*
*.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.bugs*
mail-archive.com/wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org/*

# Documentation
mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:*
mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:*
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:*
svn.wikimedia.org/doc/*

# Source code
git.wikimedia.org/*

# Code commits
gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/mediawiki-cvs/*

# Announcements
gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/mediawiki-announce/*
*.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.api.announce*
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/*/Technology_report
mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/*
blog.wikimedia.org/*/engineering-*-report
mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/*

# Blogs (please suggest more blogs to include)
laxstrom.name/blag/*
leuksman.com/log/*

# Discussion
gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/mediawiki/*
gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/*
*.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikitext*
*.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.api*
bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/*
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:*
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:*
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)*
etherpad.wmflabs.org/*
etherpad.wikimedia.org/*

How to contribute

For one-off contributions, simply edit the list above, and one of the people with admin access to the search engine's configuration panel (currently User:Nemo bis, User:Nikerabbit and User:Waldir) will sync it.

For more sustained contributions, ask for administrator access in the talk page, then you can edit the search engine directly.

Here are some things that need to be done:

add more blogs (see Planet Wikimedia's blog list)
add more technical mailing lists (see Mailing lists/overview#MediaWiki and technical)
add the resources listed at w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/Resources#Technology report

Known issues

Some browser extensions (e.g. Ghostery) may block the Google AJAX Search API.
Some resources aren't crawled by Google:
- Bugzilla - https://www.google.com/search?q=site:bugzilla.wikimedia.org
- IRC logs - https://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/ (strangely, some pages do show up, despite robots.txt. In any case, none from #mediawiki)
- Gitweb - https://www.google.com/search?q=site:https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb
- Possibly others? Please add more here if you find any.

Included URLs

How to contribute

Known issues

See also