[Mediawiki-l] Making search "and" by default

[Katharina Wolkwitz]

I guess the possibility for wildcard search would be nice if it were integrated
into the default install.
But the extension needed for that is - thankfully - not nearly as difficult to
install as the lucene- or sphinx-extension...

Kate

Brion Vibber schrieb:
> Platonides wrote:
>> Default mediawiki search is really bad. You should use a search 
>> extension, like Lucene.
> 
> Since those are difficult to set up at the best of times and impossible
> for most shared hosts, it might help if you instead listed out the
> things that are "really bad" about it so they can be fixed for the
> default install.
> 
> Offhand, the split between title and text searches is a bit odd, but the
> only really "bad" thing is that MySQL's search engine by default
> excludes short and common words.
> 
> Can you think of any other problems?
> 
> -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)