Search Interface & User Experience Improvements

As of XE 1.8, XWiki still doesn't have an user-friendly search interface.

The aim of this issue is to group all issues that are related to making the search interface & user experience smoother and more effective for XWiki users. This includes:

• Making it easier for users to enter a search query (ex: in Lucene you cannot enter part of a word to search on without the * operator)
• Improving the way search results are displayed
• Making sure the search backend returns relevant results for a given search query

Completing this task might involve rewriting the XWiki Lucene Plugin. A proposal for the interface part has already been done.

Here is the list of issues that would need to be fixed to improve search:

• IMPORTANT
  • XWIKI-574
  • XE-395
  • XE-235
  • XE-252
  • XPLUCENE-40
  • XPLUCENE-38
  • XWIKI-6216
  • XWIKI-6215
  • XWIKI-6222
  • XPLUCENE-5
  • XWIKI-6217
• LESS IMPORTANT
  • XWIKI-454
  • XWIKI-576
  • XPLUCENE-4
  • XPLUCENE-13