[Mediawiki-l] Storing or Linking Documents

[David Gerard]

On 09/04/07, Ian Smith <ismith at good.com> wrote:

> So, in an attempt to take the heat out of this and get to facts, what I think you're looking for is an extension to:
> 1. allow admins to configure decoders for specific document types
> 2. run the right decoder (if any) when a document is uploaded
> 3. add the resulting plain text to the "searchindex" table.
> You would then have to find, install and configure decoders for your most-used document types.


Sounds good. e.g. Antiword is a quick way to turn a Word document into
indexable text.

Now all MediaWiki needs is a text search that doesn't suck ;-p


- d.