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.
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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Zak Greant (Foo Associates) Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. September 2010 17:52 An: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Betreff: Re: [Mediawiki-l] modify search engine
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 06:58, Scheid, Bernhard Bernhard.Scheid@oeaw.ac.at wrote:
Hi,
is it possible (is there any hook, an extension or a php-hack) to modify the search engine in such a way that the search term "example" would find "example" as well as "ex*ample"?
Can you be more specific about what you need? Is there a specific logic to where the wildcard should be inserted?
The general case (finding "example", "*example", "e*xample", "ex*ample", "exa*mple", etc.) would likely be quite expensive.