[Mediawiki-l] Search for 3 letter words / Acronyms

[Mike Lane]

Thanks very much for your help Tels and Jim - I try and work on the link /
information that you have provided.

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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jim Hu
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Search for 3 letter words / Acronyms

You have to modify your mysql configuration.  The default is to only  
index words of 4 characters or longer.  I believe the configuration  
is in my.ini.

This was actually the first question I had answered by the very  
helpful mediawiki community when I asked it many months ago.
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Jim Hu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
2128 TAMU
Texas A&M Univ.
College Station, TX 77843-2128
979-862-4054


On Feb 24, 2007, at 10:19 PM, Mike Lane wrote:

> Hi,
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> I need to modify my mediawiki installation so that I can search for  
> 3 letter
> words / acronyms such as 'VPN' etc.
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> I have WAMP 5 installed on windows XP to run Mediawiki.
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> I have searched the Mediawiki site for a solution to the problem  
> but have
> not found any answer so far.
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> Any help is much appreciated,
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>
> Mike.
>
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