andrew.mcconnell@sungard.com wrote:
On a related note, are there any plans to add support for indexing doc/xls/ppt documents described at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MHart to a general release instead of leaving it up to site admins to hack? In my opinion, the extensions found at the URL above are the most critical features missing for MediaWiki to be used as a full-featured CMS in a large enterprise.
In 1.5 you can set up a search engine plugin, which could modify the index updating behavior.
I'm not sure if this is something we'd include in the core distribution; remember our target audience is large-scale free-content prose projects, not enterprise internal CMSes. :)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)