On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Aerik Sylvan aerik@thesylvans.com wrote:
So, I think the solution is to either a) add a field to the current search index or b) create a new search index. A fulltext index might make a nice addition to mediawiki for smaller installations though (and folks who don't want to run java).
Yes, I very much agree. In fact, a good first step here would be to just add the functionality to the software using fulltext, enabled by default, and have Wikimedia disable it (and perhaps enable it experimentally on some of the small wikis). And just add appropriate extensibility like Special:Search has, so that LuceneSearch can be adapted to allow using Lucene for this. I might even be interested in doing this over the summer, if I don't have loads of other stuff to do. But my commitments tend not to be very reliable (how many bugs are still assigned to me from ages ago?), so I'm not making a commitment here.