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(a)assys.net
-----Original Message-----
From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Freek Dijkstra
Sent: 02 April 2006 00:33
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
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outdated information; I suggested on a talk page to make a prominent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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