Did a little experimenting on my local install and here's my findings. Note, I'm using mysql db.

Enabling the following debug flags helps display the pertinent content: $wgDebugComments = true; $wgDebugDumpSql = true;

Under ../includes/SearchMySQL.php contains the following function:

function searchText( $term ) { $resultSet = $this->db->resultObject( $this->db->query( $this->getQuery( $this->filter( $term ), true ) ) ); return new MySQLSearchResultSet( $resultSet, $this->searchTerms ); }

Basically, filter() (in SearchEngine.php) defines what is a legal character. Modify this constant to allow '*'. Now wildcards matches work.

Also, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/fulltext-boolean.html for details about full text sql queries in MySQL.

Maurice Joseph SpikeSource developer.spikesource.com

Thanks for your post, Maurice. Unfortunately the question is still unanswered. The issue is not wildcards or no wildcards. The problem - which I also experienced and could not fix jet - occurs when the user only enters a substring without knowing the full word. In WikiPedia you will find "Timesheets" by searching for "Time","Times", "Timesheet" or the full word "Timesheets" In the MediaWiki default installation it does not work: Only searching for "Timesheets" (i.e. the exact phrase) will return a hit.

The question of Thomas was What must I do to get this work as it does in Wikipedia? And so is mine!

Best regards Thank you for your time and help. Wolfgnag

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