My comments are based mostly on second hand knowledge. People who have tried have often ran into problems, asked for help on #mediawiki, and nobody knowing anything that can help them. Probably a large part of the issue is requiring people to install a separate (non-php) program that's not all that well documented.
--bawolff
On 6/17/13, Nikolas Everett neverett@wikimedia.org wrote:
One of our goals while building this has been to make something reasonably easy to install by folks outside of WMF. I've added some notes about this to the page. I'd certainly love to hear ways that'd make it simpler to use.
Nik
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
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 My guess is http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Searching is simply out of date.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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