hello, if I use search function in our mediawiki I often didn't get a result. e.g. if I search for "vpn" I don't get a result. If I enter "vpn-verbindung" the page is found. If I enter "verbindung" the page will be found as well.
Anyone can explain me why it doesn't work?
We use
* MediaWiki http://www.mediawiki.org/ : 1.11.0 * PHP http://www.php.net/ : 5.2.1 * MySQL http://www.mysql.com/ : 5.0.37
thanks!
Günter
On 28/01/2008, Günter Gratzer Guenter.Gratzer@abf.co.at wrote:
hello, if I use search function in our mediawiki I often didn't get a result. e.g. if I search for "vpn" I don't get a result. If I enter "vpn-verbindung" the page is found. If I enter "verbindung" the page will be found as well.
Anyone can explain me why it doesn't work?
We use
MediaWiki <http://www.mediawiki.org/> : 1.11.0PHP <http://www.php.net/> : 5.2.1MySQL <http://www.mysql.com/> : 5.0.37thanks!
Günter
MySQL only indexes words > 3 characters. You can change it, but you may want to think it through before deciding whether you really want it. More details on Cf. http://eventum.mysql.org/wiki/index.php/Fulltext_Search
Kind regards,
Herta
Thanks Herta for your tip!
I added ft_min_word_len=3 to my.ini and rebuild the FULLTEXT index of table searchindex as described in your link. Now it works!
Regards Günter
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Herta Van den Eynde Gesendet: Montag, 28. Jänner 2008 09:50 An: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Betreff: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Problems with search
On 28/01/2008, Günter Gratzer Guenter.Gratzer@abf.co.at wrote:
hello, if I use search function in our mediawiki I often didn't get a result. e.g. if I search for "vpn" I don't get a result. If I enter "vpn-verbindung" the page is found. If I enter "verbindung" the page will be found as well.
Anyone can explain me why it doesn't work?
We use
MediaWiki <http://www.mediawiki.org/> : 1.11.0PHP <http://www.php.net/> : 5.2.1MySQL <http://www.mysql.com/> : 5.0.37thanks!
Günter
MySQL only indexes words > 3 characters. You can change it, but you may want to think it through before deciding whether you really want it. More details on Cf. http://eventum.mysql.org/wiki/index.php/Fulltext_Search
Kind regards,
Herta
Günter Gratzer <Guenter.Gratzer@...> writes:
hello, if I use search function in our mediawiki I often didn't get a result. e.g. if I search for "vpn" I don't get a result. If I enter "vpn-verbindung"
the page is found. If I enter
"verbindung" the page will be found as well.
Anyone can explain me why it doesn't work?
Unfortunately, this is a common complaint for users accustomed to the Google search environment. The default MediaWiki search just works differently which has the appearance of an inaccurate or a broken search. That is why there have been a number of search enhancement extensions created for mediawiki (see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Search_extensions). There are some extensions that simply build on top of the wiki search (i.e. Extension:RigorousSearch), some that replace it completely with an alternative search method (i.e. Extension:LuceneSearch or Extension:SphinxSearch), and some that simply use google to search the wiki site (i.e. Extension:GoogleSiteSearch).
You may want to take a look at all of those and see which one could provide better functionality for your wiki.
hallo guenter,
I had the same strange experience, searching for <ccc> noooothing came up???! ...
without knowing any details about the mediawiki-code I found out, that anything shorter than 4 letters isn´t found by the search-engine. it should be possible to change that somewhere in the php-search-script of the mediawiki-software.
does anybody know how to change that?
greetings, frieder
Günter Gratzer wrote:
hello, if I use search function in our mediawiki I often didn't get a result. e.g. if I search for "vpn" I don't get a result. If I enter "vpn-verbindung" the page is found. If I enter "verbindung" the page will be found as well.
Anyone can explain me why it doesn't work?
We use
- MediaWiki http://www.mediawiki.org/ : 1.11.0
- PHP http://www.php.net/ : 5.2.1
- MySQL http://www.mysql.com/ : 5.0.37
thanks!
Günter
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Hi Günter,
take a look at this page:
http://xoa.petdance.com/How_to:_Allow_searching_for_short_words_in_MediaWiki
friederb schrieb:
hallo guenter,
I had the same strange experience, searching for <ccc> noooothing came up???! ...
without knowing any details about the mediawiki-code I found out, that anything shorter than 4 letters isn´t found by the search-engine. it should be possible to change that somewhere in the php-search-script of the mediawiki-software.
does anybody know how to change that?
greetings, frieder
Günter Gratzer wrote:
hello, if I use search function in our mediawiki I often didn't get a result. e.g. if I search for "vpn" I don't get a result. If I enter "vpn-verbindung" the page is found. If I enter "verbindung" the page will be found as well.
Anyone can explain me why it doesn't work?
We use
- MediaWiki http://www.mediawiki.org/ : 1.11.0
- PHP http://www.php.net/ : 5.2.1
- MySQL http://www.mysql.com/ : 5.0.37
thanks!
Günter
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Hello, I'm looking for a working extension for media wiki 1.11 to upload multiple files with a zip-file. Found only http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpecialMultiUploadViaZip which doesn't work with 1.11. Anyone got it work with this version?
Regards Günter
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Katharina Wolkwitz Gesendet: Montag, 28. Jänner 2008 15:48 An: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Betreff: Re: [Mediawiki-l] [Bulk] Problems with search
Hi Günter,
take a look at this page:
http://xoa.petdance.com/How_to:_Allow_searching_for_short_words_in_MediaWiki
friederb schrieb:
hallo guenter,
I had the same strange experience, searching for <ccc> noooothing came up???! ...
without knowing any details about the mediawiki-code I found out, that anything shorter than 4 letters isn´t found by the search-engine. it should be possible to change that somewhere in the php-search-script of the mediawiki-software.
does anybody know how to change that?
greetings, frieder
Günter Gratzer wrote:
hello, if I use search function in our mediawiki I often didn't get a result. e.g. if I search for "vpn" I don't get a result. If I enter "vpn-verbindung" the page is found. If I enter "verbindung" the page will be found as well.
Anyone can explain me why it doesn't work?
We use
- MediaWiki http://www.mediawiki.org/ : 1.11.0
- PHP http://www.php.net/ : 5.2.1
- MySQL http://www.mysql.com/ : 5.0.37
thanks!
Günter
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Hello, I installed the extension Wiki2LaTex on my MediaWiki 1.11.0. The Wiki2LaTex page is shown with all the options but if I klick the "Start Export" Button nothing happens.
Anyone has an idea?
I still looking for a working extension to export a Wiki page to a document like PDF. Anyone has one running with MediaWiki 1.11?
Regards Günter
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