You can limit the scope of a search using the "prefix:" operator.
For example:
http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=imag…
Unfortunately, I think you need Lucene-search for that functionality.
If that's not an option, vanilla MediaWiki does let you limit the
scope of a search to specific namespaces, so using namespaces instead
of subpages would be a way to work around your problem.
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Brian Bell <dev(a)rlyehable.org> wrote:
Yes, the search box is for searching the entire wiki.
Since most browsers contain a search function (ctrl-f for example), it
is not normally needed. Just click on the page and search using the
browser's search function.
ctrl-f (at least the default implementation in most browsers) is a
very limited tool: you're out of luck if you want a search that's any
fuzzier than "find this exact string for me".