[Mediawiki-l] search feature

Joe DeShon joedeshon at comcast.net
Mon Oct 8 19:32:00 UTC 2007


You need to establish a standard within the wiki that every TLA gets its own article.  Then establish another standard that the first reference in every article to a TLA is a wikilink to that TLA.  That way you have all the TLAs defined, and you can easily discover the articles that refer to them.

Changing search options always runs into the danger of uncovering too many false positives.

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From: "Christensen, Courtney" <ChristensenC at BATTELLE.ORG> 

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> [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rowe, 
> Dolores A 
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 1:42 PM 
> To: mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org 
> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] search feature 
> 
> We have a lot of 3-letter acronyms at my company, and I have noticed the 
> search feature does not work correctly when looking for a 3-letter 
> acronym. 
> Does anyone know how to fix this? 
> ----------------------------- 
> 
> Hi Lori, 
> 
> Don't know the specific steps to fix this, but it involves changing the 
> sql lowest character search. MediaWiki search has a minimum of 3 chars 
> because SQL has a minimum of 3 chars. I think that is the first part of 
> your answer anyway. 
> 
> Good luck! 
> -Courtney 
> 
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