Hi all,
Need to get this one out, the other main complaint I'm seeing is that searching page titles is somewhat weird.
The PHPWiki behavior allowed for partial matches. For example, if I had the following page titles in the wiki:
FooFoo FooFooBar FooFooBlah FooFooArgh
And then I searched for "foof", I'd get title matches on all of the above. The list would contain all of those and I could click on whichever I was interested in. We very, very regularly navigate around like this.
If I search on the same terms with the same pages available in mediawiki, I get no page title matches, just full-text matches.
Is this the expected behavior?
Additionally, it seems like the search is not grabbing some of the new pages we've added. Have I missed a cron job or similar needed to keep the search index up to date?
Thanks,
Charles
(last question for the night) ___ Charles Sprickman NetEng/SysAdmin Bway.net - New York's Best Internet - www.bway.net spork@bway.net - 212.655.9344
On 10/01/2008, Charles Sprickman spork@bway.net wrote:
Hi all,
Need to get this one out, the other main complaint I'm seeing is that searching page titles is somewhat weird.
The PHPWiki behavior allowed for partial matches. For example, if I had the following page titles in the wiki:
FooFoo FooFooBar FooFooBlah FooFooArgh
And then I searched for "foof", I'd get title matches on all of the above. The list would contain all of those and I could click on whichever I was interested in. We very, very regularly navigate around like this.
If I search on the same terms with the same pages available in mediawiki, I get no page title matches, just full-text matches.
Is this the expected behavior?
Additionally, it seems like the search is not grabbing some of the new pages we've added. Have I missed a cron job or similar needed to keep the search index up to date?
Thanks,
Charles
(last question for the night) ___ Charles Sprickman NetEng/SysAdmin Bway.net - New York's Best Internet - www.bway.net spork@bway.net - 212.655.9344
Workaround for your search problem:
Towards the bottom of the column on the left, you should find a link to 'Special pages'. If you click that, you'll find "All pages" at the top of the list. If you click that, you'll find a list of all pages in your wiki, which you can then search using your browser's search facility.
If this is used heavily, you could add a link to "All pages" in your left hand side column.
As to regular searches, "for reasons of efficiency and priority, very recent changes are not always immediately taken into account in searches." You can replace the default search engine if you want to. http://www.think-future.de/wiki/index.php?title=Google-Search describes an example.
Kind regards,
Herta
Hi Charles,
if you install the wildcard-search-extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wildcard_search then you could (at least) search for foof* and thus find all your titles.
Good luck!
Katharina
Herta Van den Eynde schrieb:
On 10/01/2008, Charles Sprickman spork@bway.net wrote:
Hi all,
Need to get this one out, the other main complaint I'm seeing is that searching page titles is somewhat weird.
The PHPWiki behavior allowed for partial matches. For example, if I had the following page titles in the wiki:
FooFoo FooFooBar FooFooBlah FooFooArgh
And then I searched for "foof", I'd get title matches on all of the above. The list would contain all of those and I could click on whichever I was interested in. We very, very regularly navigate around like this.
If I search on the same terms with the same pages available in mediawiki, I get no page title matches, just full-text matches.
Is this the expected behavior?
Additionally, it seems like the search is not grabbing some of the new pages we've added. Have I missed a cron job or similar needed to keep the search index up to date?
Thanks,
Charles
(last question for the night) ___ Charles Sprickman NetEng/SysAdmin Bway.net - New York's Best Internet - www.bway.net spork@bway.net - 212.655.9344
Workaround for your search problem:
Towards the bottom of the column on the left, you should find a link to 'Special pages'. If you click that, you'll find "All pages" at the top of the list. If you click that, you'll find a list of all pages in your wiki, which you can then search using your browser's search facility.
If this is used heavily, you could add a link to "All pages" in your left hand side column.
As to regular searches, "for reasons of efficiency and priority, very recent changes are not always immediately taken into account in searches." You can replace the default search engine if you want to. http://www.think-future.de/wiki/index.php?title=Google-Search describes an example.
Kind regards,
Herta
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