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(a)assys.net -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)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: not 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site is still rather confusing to me; I seem to often end up on meta.wikimedia.org, while that seem to contain a lot of outdated information; I suggested on a talk page to make a prominent link to www.mediawiki.org on meta.wikimedia.org, but that has not been done yet.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(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l