Am Donnerstag, 9. September 2010 schrieb Andrea Zanni:
Dear wikilibrarians,
during Wikimania I had the opportunity to speak with some developers
who told me that,
if in these years there has been an hard work on MediaWiki search
engine (especially for optimizing it for Wikipedia and other
projects), Wikisource as a project has always been omitted.
As far as I can tell, the search engine in Wikisource fails to
understand clearly that Index: and Page: are *fundamental*
namespaces,
and (at least in it.s, where we have an Author: namespace) it fails
often in finding authors as well.
I would like to ask you if some hacks or measures has been taken in
your project,
or if there is a solution we could ask together directly to the
developers.
In your preferences, you can select the namespaces searched by default
(choose the "Search options" or "Opzioni di ricerca" tab). With
$wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault, a global default can be set, see
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault
Or do you mean the (non-main?) namespaces aren't indexed properly as
regards the needs of Wikisource?
Best regards,
Alexander