[Mediawiki-l] Mediawiki 1.3.2 doesn't find three letter words!?!

[Dan Kelley]

Yes, 3 characters is the minimum.  Apparently that can be changed but 
it requires changing something about the database, so I didn't bother 
when I learned that.

On Oct 2, 2004, at 7:07 AM, Steffen Siebert wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have pages which contains "Ant" and "CVS" in header and normal text. 
> But if I search for "ant", "Ant", "ANT", "cvs" or "CVS" I get no 
> matches.
>
> I added "Ants" to the page text and a search for "ants" is successfull.
>
> Is there a minimum length for search terms and if so why I don't get a 
> message informing me about that fact?
>
> A search for "cvs" in Wikipedia is successfull by the way...
>
> Ciao,
>   Steffen
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