On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 05:27, Scheid, Bernhard Bernhard.Scheid@oeaw.ac.at wrote:
Sorry, I did not mean a wildcard but a middot (·), the mail software seems to have misinterpreted the character. On my wiki, I use middot as a camouflage of ­ in the wikitext to mark silent syllable breaks. This works quite well, but the drawback is: the search engine no longer finds the term.
Aha. That's a different case then. I know very little about MediaWiki's search (and the docs aren't particularly helpful in this area.)
If I understand the docs correctly, the default search for MediaWiki uses the fulltext search capabilities of the underlying database. In the case of MySQL, there's no easy way to modify how the fulltext functionality treats content.
Digging around, I ran across a page [0] on the Lucene search extension [1] that indicates that the functionality you need might be available here.
I'll spend more time later looking at the various manual pages on search to see what else I can turn up.
[0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Rainman/search_internals#Exact_article [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lucene-search