On 10/04/07, Tels <nospam-abuse(a)bloodgate.com> wrote:
Well, or write an extension that implements his idea,
e.g.:
* upon upload, run the document through an index-generator (per file type)
* add that index-text to some searchable index, or store it in the mysql
I've thrown some very experimental initial work on such an extension
into Subversion; trunk/extensions/FileSearch. It introduces a
framework for defining "Extractors", which are capable of extracting
indexable content from uploaded files, and adds this into the search
index for the image page itself when a file is uploaded.
Searching seems to work (the reference implementation provided is for
plain text file uploads, which are obviously straightforward), but
result display leaves a lot to be desired. I anticipate rewriting the
whole thing to provide cleaner, better-looking integration into
MediaWiki at some point soonish.
Rob Church