[Mediawiki-l] Searching Image/File description text

[Michelle]

On Jun 7, 2007, at 7:21 AM, Alexis Moinet wrote:

> Michelle a écrit :
>> In addition to searching for a string within image and file names, is
>> there any way to search the description text that was entered at
>> upload time?  Neither the Gallery nor FIle special pages seem to
>> offer it, so I just wanted to be sure I'm not missing it.  It sure
>> would be handy for our wiki.
>
> go to [[Special:Search]] and check the box for Image namespace, it  
> will search in the description text
>
> (I think you can set that box to checked-by-default using  
> Localsettings.php or in the user preference)
>
> ______________________________________________

D'oh!  Thanks very much -- that works great. I was going at it from  
the wrong special pages.

Michelle