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@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