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

Markus Abt abt at comet.de
Sat Oct 2 19:53:53 UTC 2004


Hi,

Dan Kelley wrote:
> Yes, 3 characters is the minimum.  Apparently that can be changed but 

I've read that, too. But in fact, 4 characters seems to be the minimum,
at least up to version 1.3.3.

Markus

> 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?




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