Matt England wrote:
I have come to form the impression that
MediaWiki's full-page-text
capability is poor. I have inserted various words at my 1.4.0 site,
meta.wikimedia.org, and
en.wikipedia.org, and have found similar
problems on all the sites. Depending on how and where I place the same
text, searches will find the text (at least on my site), and if I take
the same text and put it in a different position on the same page, the
text is not found in a search.
For what it's worth, text edits to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox
were not found in a search (I also put stuff in
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sandbox with the same results). I made a
very unique text string did not result in a search hit on *any* page.
The Wikimedia sites are using a completely different search engine. At
the moment a full rebuild of the search index is being made and changes
will not immediately be reflected.
This is completely unrelated to the MySQL fulltext search engine backend
used by default on MediaWiki, which should update immediately (with
various caveats).
If you are having problems with it, please check the index by running
the search queries manually and ensure it is properly set up.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)