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

[Greg Sabino Mullane]

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> I started this discussion. I don't know where it is heading for now.. :)
> As a layman, I wonder why such a robust software like mediawiki doesn't
> provide some nice search features!
> It boasts of many other features.....

Another alternative is to use Postgres as a backend (which uses tsearch2), 
providing word stemming, AND and ORs, ranking, etc. There are also plenty 
of other options out there in addition to the extensions mentioned in this 
thread. See for example:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FulltextSearchEngines

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