[Mediawiki-l] Good text search for a company intranet?

[David Gerard]

I let slip at work that I know something about MediaWiki and now have
been asked about a text search function that doesn't suck for another
department's MediaWiki installation.

It looks like an install of 1.5b3 that someone installed and forgot
about. I presume it's only got the default search that comes in the
tarball - is that MySQL full-text search or Lucene? If the former,
does anyone have a list of better text searches and how to install
them? Proprietary or semi-proprietary is not an issue as long as it's
free-beer.

(They don't have a sysadmin either [!], so this one might end up being
mine too ...)


- d.