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This is the end user oriented roadmap for Woogle4MediaWiki. There is a also a [[Woogle4MediaWiki/Roadmap (development)|version for developers]] with more detailed information.

This page summarizes major plans in mostly non-technical terms. Your [[Woogle4MediaWiki/Feedback|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 [http://octopus13.fzi.de:8080/browse/HTA-9]

=== 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, [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Redirect 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
* ...

=== 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 [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Redirect 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.