Hi,
I would like to allow advanced searches on my Local Wikis (MySQL databases: HMWiki, Linux_Wiki) and I was wondering which MediaWiki extensions will allow me to do this. Now I realize what I'm saying so far is casting my net a bit wide so odds are many of you won't know what to recommend so I'm going to give some examples of what I want to be able to do with such a search:
* Enable searching specific parts of pages like its title, category(ies), section(s), section(s) titles, body (i.e., the text other than the page's title), etc. Instead of searching the entire page the way Wiki searches do by default.
* Support for Boolean operators (e.g., AND, OR, ANDNOT, etc.) between search criteria (e.g., I would like to search for pages belonging to more than one category. For example, I would be looking for pages belonging to category $1 AND category $2 AND category $3).
Now my experience with this mailing list tells me not to expect a response here for days at least. But I also know that this list also gets about 2-10 messages per day, depending on the day. I don't want my email server to get packed with emails that I'm not interested in (as I'm afraid I'm pretty useless as far as helping others with issues relating to MW, I'm really just here to receive help not to provide it) so I will stay on this list for probably at most a week: if you send a reply and get no answer from me within a 12 hours odds are I won't be receiving emails from this list any more so it would be best to just send your emails to my email address: brentonhorne77@gmail.com mailto:brentonhorne77@gmail.com.
Further information
* MediaWiki version: 1.25.1. * MySQL, PHP, Lua (I have the Scribunto extension enabled on both Wikis), Apache, /etc./ are all maintained as the latest versions available for the operating system specified below. * Operating system: 32 bit Ubuntu 15.04. * Understanding of PHP and other programming languages used in MediaWiki: novice. Use simple English please. I can follow simple instructions, like add these lines to this file and save it here, but if you give me a task without explicit step-by-step instructions odds are I won't be able to follow ya.
Thanks for your time, Brenton
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Brenton Horne brentonhorne77@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I would like to allow advanced searches on my Local Wikis (MySQL databases: HMWiki, Linux_Wiki) and I was wondering which MediaWiki extensions will allow me to do this. Now I realize what I'm saying so far is casting my net a bit wide so odds are many of you won't know what to recommend so I'm going to give some examples of what I want to be able to do with such a search:
- Enable searching specific parts of pages like its title, category(ies),
section(s), section(s) titles, body (i.e., the text other than the page's title), etc. Instead of searching the entire page the way Wiki searches do by default.
I don't believe you can do this with the MySQL backed search implementation. At this point on site search at WMF is provided by CirrusSearch backed by Elasticsearch. If you are willing to go through the setup process then you'll get things like incategory and insource and intitle. There isn't a specific syntax to limit the search to section titles or the body.
- Support for Boolean operators (e.g., AND, OR, ANDNOT, etc.) between
search criteria (e.g., I would like to search for pages belonging to more than one category. For example, I would be looking for pages belonging to category $1 AND category $2 AND category $3).
This exists in CirrusSearch to some degree. Searching for ```foo AND (bar OR baz)``` works but ```intitle:foo AND (incategory:bar OR incategory:baz)``` doesn't. We're working to fix that but its difficult because we painted ourselves into a corner implementation wize.
Now my experience with this mailing list tells me not to expect a response here for days at least. But I also know that this list also gets about 2-10 messages per day, depending on the day. I don't want my email server to get packed with emails that I'm not interested in (as I'm afraid I'm pretty useless as far as helping others with issues relating to MW, I'm really just here to receive help not to provide it) so I will stay on this list for probably at most a week: if you send a reply and get no answer from me within a 12 hours odds are I won't be receiving emails from this list any more so it would be best to just send your emails to my email address: brentonhorne77@gmail.com mailto:brentonhorne77@gmail.com.
Further information
- MediaWiki version: 1.25.1.
- MySQL, PHP, Lua (I have the Scribunto extension enabled on both Wikis),
Apache, /etc./ are all maintained as the latest versions available for the operating system specified below.
- Operating system: 32 bit Ubuntu 15.04.
- Understanding of PHP and other programming languages used in MediaWiki:
novice. Use simple English please. I can follow simple instructions, like add these lines to this file and save it here, but if you give me a task without explicit step-by-step instructions odds are I won't be able to follow ya.
Setting up CirrusSearch involves: * Installing Elasticsearch somewhere your wiki can access it. * Firewalling Elasticsearch (or otherwise locking it down) and set some configuration variables and restarting it. * Setting some globals. * Running two maintenance scripts.
It works much better if you are using Redis for the MediaWiki job queue but works OK without it.
So its somewhat involved but nowhere near the undocumented process of setting up the search that was in use a year ago. I couldn't guess how long it'd take you. There are folks in freenode's #wikimedia-search who could help at least 16 hours a day, five days a week.
Nik
more than one category. For example, I would be looking for pages belonging to category $1 AND category $2 AND category $3).
There is an extension just for that: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Multi-Category_Search
DPL does even more of the stuff you want, but does not provide a search interface. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList_%28third-party%29
Sphinx (http://sphinxsearch.com/) and Extension:SphinxSeatch ( https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SphinxSearch) Simple and efficient. It has everything you described in you UR. Ciao On Jun 29, 2015 2:52 PM, "Brenton Horne" brentonhorne77@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I would like to allow advanced searches on my Local Wikis (MySQL databases: HMWiki, Linux_Wiki) and I was wondering which MediaWiki extensions will allow me to do this. Now I realize what I'm saying so far is casting my net a bit wide so odds are many of you won't know what to recommend so I'm going to give some examples of what I want to be able to do with such a search:
- Enable searching specific parts of pages like its title, category(ies),
section(s), section(s) titles, body (i.e., the text other than the page's title), etc. Instead of searching the entire page the way Wiki searches do by default.
- Support for Boolean operators (e.g., AND, OR, ANDNOT, etc.) between
search criteria (e.g., I would like to search for pages belonging to more than one category. For example, I would be looking for pages belonging to category $1 AND category $2 AND category $3).
Now my experience with this mailing list tells me not to expect a response here for days at least. But I also know that this list also gets about 2-10 messages per day, depending on the day. I don't want my email server to get packed with emails that I'm not interested in (as I'm afraid I'm pretty useless as far as helping others with issues relating to MW, I'm really just here to receive help not to provide it) so I will stay on this list for probably at most a week: if you send a reply and get no answer from me within a 12 hours odds are I won't be receiving emails from this list any more so it would be best to just send your emails to my email address: brentonhorne77@gmail.com mailto:brentonhorne77@gmail.com.
Further information
- MediaWiki version: 1.25.1.
- MySQL, PHP, Lua (I have the Scribunto extension enabled on both Wikis),
Apache, /etc./ are all maintained as the latest versions available for the operating system specified below.
- Operating system: 32 bit Ubuntu 15.04.
- Understanding of PHP and other programming languages used in MediaWiki:
novice. Use simple English please. I can follow simple instructions, like add these lines to this file and save it here, but if you give me a task without explicit step-by-step instructions odds are I won't be able to follow ya.
Thanks for your time, Brenton _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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