[Mediawiki-l] Fuzzy (approximate) wiki page title access - fuzzy bookmarking - auto search

[Thomas Gries]

I recently came across a wiki which implements a more useful way to 
access (search) pages by actually implementing a form of fuzzy 
(approximate) bookmarking. Perhaps this is a way to improve the 
userfriendliness of MediaWiki, too.

I filed bugzilla http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=883 for this.
Tom

 From the content:
To search for the word "cgi" in all page titles, you can use the URL:
 
        http://purl.org/tcl/wiki/cgi

To search for this word in all titles and in the full texts, use:

        http://purl.org/tcl/wiki/cgi*  (in general: an regular expression)

But there's a little more to it. That last URL is actually a form of 
fuzzy bookmarking. There is no web page called "search". Wikit presents 
its contents as if it were a directory with pages, but its all smoke and 
mirrors...