David Gerard wrote:
I let slip at work that I know something about
MediaWiki and now have
been asked about a text search function that doesn't suck for another
department's MediaWiki installation.
It looks like an install of 1.5b3 that someone installed and forgot
about. I presume it's only got the default search that comes in the
tarball - is that MySQL full-text search or Lucene?
MySQL.
If the former,
does anyone have a list of better text searches and how to install
them? Proprietary or semi-proprietary is not an issue as long as it's
free-beer.
The MySQL search engine mostly works, but is kind of picky; the default
minimum word size and stop-list kind of suck. You can adjust these
things in MySQL; I believe there's a faq entry on this.
I wouldn't necessarily recommend using our Lucene-based system at this
time; while it searches ok the the updating process is kind of a pain
and the configuration and dependencies are finicky.
If you want the best, though, just buy yourself a Google search
appliance. ;)
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)