Hi,
I would like to allow advanced searches on my Local Wikis (MySQL
databases: HMWiki, Linux_Wiki) and I was wondering which MediaWiki
extensions will allow me to do this. Now I realize what I'm saying so
far is casting my net a bit wide so odds are many of you won't know what
to recommend so I'm going to give some examples of what I want to be
able to do with such a search:
* Enable searching specific parts of pages like its title,
category(ies), section(s), section(s) titles, body (i.e., the text other
than the page's title), etc. Instead of searching the entire page the
way Wiki searches do by default.
* Support for Boolean operators (e.g., AND, OR, ANDNOT, etc.) between
search criteria (e.g., I would like to search for pages belonging to
more than one category. For example, I would be looking for pages
belonging to category $1 AND category $2 AND category $3).
Now my experience with this mailing list tells me not to expect a
response here for days at least. But I also know that this list also
gets about 2-10 messages per day, depending on the day. I don't want my
email server to get packed with emails that I'm not interested in (as
I'm afraid I'm pretty useless as far as helping others with issues
relating to MW, I'm really just here to receive help not to provide it)
so I will stay on this list for probably at most a week: if you send a
reply and get no answer from me within a 12 hours odds are I won't be
receiving emails from this list any more so it would be best to just
send your emails to my email address: brentonhorne77(a)gmail.com
<mailto:brentonhorne77@gmail.com>.
Further information
* MediaWiki version: 1.25.1.
* MySQL, PHP, Lua (I have the Scribunto extension enabled on both
Wikis), Apache, /etc./ are all maintained as the latest versions
available for the operating system specified below.
* Operating system: 32 bit Ubuntu 15.04.
* Understanding of PHP and other programming languages used in
MediaWiki: novice. Use simple English please. I can follow simple
instructions, like add these lines to this file and save it here, but if
you give me a task without explicit step-by-step instructions odds are I
won't be able to follow ya.
Thanks for your time,
Brenton