As far as I as I was aware it was one of those features of MySQL everyone was just aware of; whenever I do a MySQL instillation I always change this figure down to 3 because it affects the search on another site of mine.
The FAQ details the default 4 character feature of MySQL which people installing MediaWiki would read as part of the setup, they could then either change MySQL themselves or alter the default message themselves
Arthur arthur@assys.net -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Freek Dijkstra Sent: 02 April 2006 00:33 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Searches for small words (in caps) returnno results
Brion Vibber wrote:
I just spend quite some time figuring out why a search on "IP" did
not
match a page, while I was sure I had a page on "IP Address ranges".
Read the FAQ please.
Thanks, but the FAQ did not contain any new information.
I'm still suggesting to change the text of MediaWiki:Nonefound for a default installation (I'm aware change it myself, and did so -- I just hope that such a small change will prevent more people for sleepless nights about this "feature" :-) ).
By the way, though I did not mention that in my original mail, I am highly interested in work-arounds in PHP, even at a significant performance cost. My wiki is running on a production server, and I can't
change the setting (this MySQL feature seems very immature at the time).
Regards, Freek
PS: Thanks that you pointed me at FAQ though -- I didn't realize there was one. The mediawiki site is still rather confusing to me; I seem to often end up on meta.wikimedia.org, while that seem to contain a lot of outdated information; I suggested on a talk page to make a prominent link to www.mediawiki.org on meta.wikimedia.org, but that has not been done yet. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Moin,
On Sunday 02 April 2006 09:33, Arthur Guy wrote:
As far as I as I was aware it was one of those features of MySQL everyone was just aware of; whenever I do a MySQL instillation I always change this figure down to 3 because it affects the search on another site of mine.
Unfortunately, many people just want a wiki, and have no idea about MySQL (and they shouldn't actually need it).
The FAQ details the default 4 character feature of MySQL which people installing MediaWiki would read as part of the setup,
Hehe, that was a good one. Somebody reading the documentation, all the way through? *chokes on laughter*
they could then either change MySQL themselves or alter the default message themselves
I still think a better default message would cause less hairs pulled, for instance I was aware that you can somewhere change that, but I still end up searching for FAQ or similiar things on wikis, not getting any hits and then wonder why, totally forgetting that you need 4 letters and that this wiki probably forgot to change the default.
MAybe its even possible to read out the current limit from mysql and embed it into the message.
Best wishes,
Tels
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