On Oct 2, 2004, at 12:04 PM, Dan Kelley wrote:
Yes, 3 characters is the minimum. Apparently that can be changed but it requires changing something about the database, so I didn't bother when I learned that.
See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Fulltext_Fine-tuning.html
If running on MySQL 3.x you'll also need to tell MediaWiki that you've changed the minimum word length by setting $wgDBminWordLen in your LocalSettings.php.
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