On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Aerik Sylvan <aerik(a)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.