Just as a note, MediaWiki default (aka "crappy") search is very different from the lucene stuff used by Wikimedia. Lucene search is rather difficult to set up, so most third party wikis do not use it.
--bawolff
On 6/17/13, Nikolas Everett neverett@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm not sure about http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Searching but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching has lots of things we're going to have to add to our list. My guess is http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Searching is simply out of date.
Nik
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Chris McMahon cmcmahon@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 1:28 PM, S Page spage@wikimedia.org wrote:
- enwiki says "Hello dolly" in quotes gives different results, mw
directly
contradicts this. Even on my local wiki, quotes make a difference.
- enwiki disagrees with itself what a dash in front of a word does.
I did some research a few weeks ago on the current state of Search and there are a number of discrepancies between the documentation and actual behavior. Some of them have BZ tickets, like https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44238 -Chris _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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