[Mediawiki-l] Searches for small words (in caps) returnno results

Arthur Guy Arthur at assys.net
Sun Apr 2 07:33:01 UTC 2006


As far as I as I was aware it was one of those features of MySQL
everyone was just aware of; whenever I do a MySQL instillation I always
change this figure down to 3 because it affects the search on another
site of mine.

The FAQ details the default 4 character feature of MySQL which people
installing MediaWiki would read as part of the setup, they could then
either change MySQL themselves or alter the default message themselves

Arthur
arthur at assys.net
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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Freek Dijkstra
Sent: 02 April 2006 00:33
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Searches for small words (in caps) returnno
results

Brion Vibber wrote:

>> I just spend quite some time figuring out why a search on "IP" did
not
>> match a page, while I was sure I had a page on "IP Address ranges".
> 
> Read the FAQ please.

Thanks, but the FAQ did not contain any new information.

I'm still suggesting to change the text of MediaWiki:Nonefound for a 
default installation (I'm aware change it myself, and did so -- I just 
hope that such a small change will prevent more people for sleepless 
nights about this "feature" :-) ).

By the way, though I did not mention that in my original mail, I am 
highly interested in work-arounds in PHP, even at a significant 
performance cost. My wiki is running on a production server, and I can't

change the setting (this MySQL feature seems very immature at the time).

Regards,
Freek

PS: Thanks that you pointed me at FAQ though -- I didn't realize there 
was one. The mediawiki site is still rather confusing to me; I seem to 
often end up on meta.wikimedia.org, while that seem to contain a lot of 
outdated information; I suggested on a talk page to make a prominent 
link to www.mediawiki.org on meta.wikimedia.org, but that has not been 
done yet.
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