Heya Jim, We've been messing with this around for quiet a while, and we figured that, since the search is done in the MySQL database, the only way to solve it is to change the MySQL configuration and rebuild the indexes. If someone else finds another solution, please let us know as well. Greetz, Tom Maaswinkel Rabobank Nederland -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Namens Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] Verzonden: woensdag 12 maart 2008 17:50 Aan: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Onderwerp: [Mediawiki-l] Search less than 4 characters. Hi All, I am running a Linux server with about 30 wikis, each with its own database instance using MySQL5 on a separate server. I have found that the wiki's search engine will only search for strings 4 characters or more. This is evidently caused by the MySQL's default configuration having full text search indexing limited to a minumum of 4 characters. One of my customers would like their wiki to do 3 character searches. I have found a good description of how to fix this by modifying the MySQL configuration, rebuilding indexes and restarting MySQL here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Short_words_in_searches but I'm reluctant to bugger with the MySQL server's configuration for just 1 wiki out of 30 we are supporting. Does anyone have a recommendation for this, such as an extension, to add a separate search engine. I've looked at the Extension Matrix and didn't see anything that was exciting. Thanks, -Jim _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l ================================================ De informatie opgenomen in dit bericht kan vertrouwelijk zijn en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht onterecht ontvangt, wordt u verzocht de inhoud niet te gebruiken en de afzender direct te informeren door het bericht te retourneren. Rabobank Nederland is een handelsnaam van de Cooperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank B.A.Rabobank Nederland staat ingeschreven bij de K.V.K. onder nr. 30046259 ================================================ The information contained in this message may be confidential and is intended to be exclusively for the addressee. Should you receive this message unintentionally, please do not use the contents herein and notify the sender immediately by return e-mail. Rabobank Nederland is a trade name of Cooperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank B.A. Rabobank Nederland is registered by the Chamber of commerce under nr. 30046259

On 12/03/2008, DanTMan <dan_the_man(a)telus.net> wrote: I've had people at work asking for this for the intranet wikis, and very much look forward to it even if it isn't soon. Are there notes on mediawiki.org about it as yet? For those of us who look there first for frequently-requested features. (No, I'm not dashing off to write them myself.) - d.