On Nov 29, 2004, at 10:53 AM, John Andrews wrote:
The help for search says this regarding secondary
search:
Oddly, sometimes no context is shown.
What is "secondary search"?
From the MediaWiki handbook:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help%3ASearching
Secondary search
After finding the pages, these pages are searched again to have the results show in red in the context lines; this search uses a more relaxed criterion: search terms occurring in the wikitext, even as part of a word, are shown in red.
Oddly, sometimes no context is shown.
We (Christian Zankel) seem to have fixed this by
applying the
following diff to
mediawiki-1.3.8/includes/SearchEngine.php:
Looks like this change recently done in 1.4:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/phase3/includes/
SpecialSearch.php?r1=1.6&r2=1.7
Great, so the fix has already been applied.
This changes the meaning of the contextlines setting from the number of lines at the beginning of the page to check, to the total number of matching lines to show. Is this correct?
Correct.
Thanks,
JA
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On Nov 30, 2004, at 9:55 PM, John Andrews wrote:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help%3ASearching
Secondary search
After finding the pages, these pages are searched again to have the results show in red in the context lines; this search uses a more relaxed criterion: search terms occurring in the wikitext, even as part of a word, are shown in red.
Who on earth invented that term? That's just the highlighting of search results.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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