Dear all,
Sorry for bothering you.
I deloy MediaWiki as a content sharing && management platform in my own company, and in company we use both English and Chinese. In mediawiki very beginning configuration page, English is selected as a default language for this MediaWiki, but there will be some pages wrote in Chinese in this MediaWiki.
Now my problem is, "Search" function is only working in English, when I input Chinese in the search box, MediaWiki will return nothing!
Does MediaWiki support this kind of function, search in multilingual in the same one MediaWiki? Do i miss any settings? If not, is there any MediaWiki Extension may help?
Many thanks!
Best regards,
Grammy Jiang
Qingdao Create Future Environment Protection Technology Consultancy Co., Ltd
Room 6-11, Building B, International Innovation Park, Songling Road, Laoshan District, Qingdao City, China
Hi, I'm afraid your question is a bit generic. First of all, what search are you using? Did you install some extensions and/or configure something? If not, what database are you using?
MediaWiki definitely supports Chinese search in English wikis, e.g. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/%E5%88%A4%E4%BE%8B%E9%AB%94%E5%88%B6. Nowadays all search efforts are being spent on this extension, which you're encouraged to try: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CirrusSearch
Finally, unless you're using Translate, your wiki is certainly doing multilingualism wrong and no fancy things are really possible, because MediaWiki is quite silly about it. Hopefully 1.25 will be better and there are some features you can already test: * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9360 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54832
Nemo
Federico,
Hi, sorry for this late reply. Thanks for your patient answer, I really appreciate it.
1. I am using the default search function, which located on the top right 2. I have not installed any search related extensions 3. The key word searched is in Chinese, and I am sure this key word is contained in some articles (in titles, content, etc.) 4. Mysql is used for database
Thanks for the example your provide, which give me confidence to fix this problem. Does Mediawiki support this search way natively or with the powerful extension you mentioned, CirrusSearch?
I am trying to install the extension you suggest, CirrusSearch, and will feedback later.
At the end of your email, "Translate" is mentioned, do you mean "translate" extension, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate?
Thanks again, for your very friendly and patient email.
Best regards,
Grammy Jiang
Qingdao Create Future Environment Protection Technology Consultancy Co., Ltd
Room 6-11, Building B, International Innovation Park, Songling Road, Laoshan District, Qingdao City, China
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 5:23 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I'm afraid your question is a bit generic. First of all, what search are you using? Did you install some extensions and/or configure something? If not, what database are you using?
MediaWiki definitely supports Chinese search in English wikis, e.g. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/%E5%88%A4% E4%BE%8B%E9%AB%94%E5%88%B6>. Nowadays all search efforts are being spent on this extension, which you're encouraged to try: < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CirrusSearch%3E
Finally, unless you're using Translate, your wiki is certainly doing multilingualism wrong and no fancy things are really possible, because MediaWiki is quite silly about it. Hopefully 1.25 will be better and there are some features you can already test:
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9360
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54832
Nemo
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