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== Issues ==
== Issues ==
=== Search and Indexing ===
=== Search and Indexing ===
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Search has made some progress lately, but is not yet where it needs to be. The indexing extension is in place, but not all pages in the Encyclopedia are using the proper semantic properties yet, so indexing will continue to work better gradually over the next few weeks.
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Search and indexing are not yet where they need to be. There are several technical reasons for this:
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# The Encyclopedia makes fairly novel use of the underlying software (using "subpages" to keep certain data safe from editing and to provide a high level of structure).
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# The software does not have excellent native support for "index" searches. A good search function should provide good "indexing" for players, teams, and parks. This is to say that searches should first be compared to a list of known terms before a full-text search is attempted. For example, "Smith" should be detected as a last name and should return a list of players named Smith.
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A member recently pointed out that the results page for "Search" is very confusing. This is true, and it's also true that full-text search generally does not return excellent results to begin with, largely due to our use of subpages.
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The work on improving search will always be ongoing, but basic indexing should be in place by the end of November, 2009.
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This issue highlights an interesting feature of the software used in the Encyclopedia - there are really two searches. The first is the "Go" search, which looks in an index for pages that might be an exact match to the name, and does its best to send a visitor straight to a page. If it fails, it drops back to "Search", which is a full-text search – it searches the text of pages and looks for a match.
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In the long run, the solution to this is probably to use Google Search for full-text searches, but that option is not available until the Encyclopedia is public. However, the most important part of our plan is to ''not use full-text search often''.
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We will continue working on improving Go searches and, as they advance, make the full-text search option less prominent, possibly moving it to a text link to a separate page, rather than allowing full-text searches from the front page.
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=== Disambiguation pages are not helpful ===
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There has been improvement in this area. Disambiguation pages carry career records for players, and this helps a lot in the short run (since we don't yet have real summaries). They still need a button for "Show all career records", which should be added in the next few weeks; for example, see [[Jose Reyes]].
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In the long run, people will have real summaries, written by people.
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=== "Sources" separated from Infobox ===
=== "Sources" separated from Infobox ===
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=== Documentation incomplete ===
=== Documentation incomplete ===
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Some of the more advanced topics are not yet written.
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Some of the more advanced topics and at least one basic topic ([[Help:Linking to people|Linking to people]]) are not yet written.
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Talk pages, formerly a known issue, are now documented: [[Help:Discussion pages]].
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=== No process for uploading images ===
=== No process for uploading images ===
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The image uploading process is nearly complete. It will continue to grow, but the basic template is established.
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There needs to be a documented process for uploading pictures that links them properly to their subjects. We should be making a final decision on what metadata will be stored with the images on 2009-10-22.
=== Stats ===
=== Stats ===
# No career summary lines
# No career summary lines
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# No differentiation between levels of play (independent, foreign, minor, major, college)
# Advanced stats not always calculated when numbers are available
# Advanced stats not always calculated when numbers are available
# Stats not viewable on browsers with javascript disabled
# Stats not viewable on browsers with javascript disabled

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