[Mediawiki-l] Behavior and configuration of searching

[Jan]

No regular expressions or wildcards
You cannot use regular expressions or wildcards such as ? or *. If you don't 
know what that is, don't worry about it. To search for pages with the words 
"boat" or "boats" search like this: "boat or boats".

Phrase
There is no method for searching for a phrase. Contrary to what you might 
expect, enclosing phrases in double quotation marks such as "can of tuna" will 
retrieve all pages containing "of" "tuna" and "can".

Source:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Search

Regards,
Jan

Uwe Baumbach schrieb:
> Hi around,
> 
> can someone give me a hint where to find a _correct_ description of (title and text) search behavior?
> 
> Particularly:
> - AND, OR, NOT - active or not? configurable?
> - Wildcards - active or not? configurable?
> - text search finds "Houses" in "[[House]]s" - in one version does in other not?!
> 
> Depends this on the used search engine?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Uwe (Baumbach)
> U.Baumbach at web.de
> 
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