On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:26:49 +0200, Sabine Cretella sabine_cretella@yahoo.it wrote:
Hi, I am talking with a couple of my colleagues about wiktionary (potential contributors) - now one of them wanted to know more about the search option - really this is a point I always was thinking about as well.
When you insert a term you need to insert exactly that term to have just "the one present page" as result (when using the button "Go"). When using "search" instead often there's no result even if I know that this term is there. And there seems to be no full-text-search in all pages. Or is there something I am missing, something I don't know?
Full-text search is turned off for at least several hours a day. To get around this on la.wikt I added a link in [[Mediawiki:Nogomatch]] to list pages that link to the search query--if you are looking for a key word and the article itself does not exist, it may be linked to in an article that defines it by context or in translation.
I also put in, besides that and the option to create the article, automatic links to what article the search term may have on en: pl: nl: de: and fr:.
Looks like: http://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Nogomatch
In action: http://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/Specialis:Search?search=absentia&go=Ire
Question: Would it make more sense to link to a search on the other language wikis instead of the article directly?
*Muke!