[Mediawiki-l] Best full-text search engine?

[Emufarmers Sangly]

On Dec 6, 2007 2:43 AM, Gabriel Millerd <gmillerd at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Dec 5, 2007 9:23 AM, Jonathan Nowacki <jnowacki at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a mediawiki based resourced that needs a full text search engine.
> > Google will not work as it is not yet a public resource.  Anyone have
> any
> > recommendations?  This is intended to be used at an academic
> institution.
> >
>   I use mnoGo. I am sure others are better, but the ability to
> dynamically tune the indexer for my namespaces and separate them
> (additionally separate talk pages), crawl doc/pdfs, provide myself
> with any type of report I want off search terms used (redirections
> authors never thought of), migrate in mailing lists or what have you
> externally, follow interwiki links for a single page, obviously it can
> search as different user/group restrictions and feed that to
> appropriate individual user/group restrictions if you need that sort
> of headache, writing stops into templates and what not is quite handy
> as well. But I am sure all the big guys do this.
>   And the search aint bad either.
>
That sounds extremely promising.  How did you integrate mnoGo with your
MediaWiki installation?  If you would be willing to provide a step-by-step
guide on MediaWiki.org, it would be very helpful (for me, anyway, and
hopefully for other people!).


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