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

[jian chen]

Now I really regret that I did not learn php well enough. Otherwise, I could
have written my search engine in php instead of java.

Some day, I will port the search engine to php as well so that it is even
easier to work with mediawiki ;-)

Jian
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A new java crawler based mediawiki search engine:
http://www.hongandjian.com/hongandjian/index.php/Mediawiki_Search_Download


On 10/16/07, Monahon, Peter B. <Peter.Monahon at uspto.gov> wrote:
>
>
> > > Earlier: ... Default mediawiki search is
> > > really bad. You should use a search
> > > extension, like Lucene...
>
> > Response: ... 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?
>
> Peter Blaise responds: Me thinks there is equivalence between a
> non-specific comment like "difficult to set up at the best of times" and
> a non-specific comment like "default mediawiki search is really bad".
> We're all pretty much equally challenged to present what we think we
> know well in a written form others can easily access.
>
> ----
>
>         Anyway, regarding "...MySQL's search engine by default excludes
> short...words", from
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual_talk:Configuration_settings#using_s
> earch_for_a_3_letter_word
>
> I put the following in
>
>         x:\...\mysql5\my.ini
>
>         [mysqld]
>         ft_min_word_len=2
>         [myisamchk]
>         ft_min_word_len=2
>         ## NEW for 2-letter searching, even 2-character words should be
>         ## searchable - rebuild the text index by running (in DOS):
>         ## C:\...mediawiki\maintenance\>_ php
> maintenance/rebuildtextindex.php [Enter]
>
>         .... and, of course, ran php maintenance/rebuildtextindex.php
>
> ----
>
>         But, regarding "...MySQL's search engine by default
> excludes...common words..." YOU'RE RIGHT!  A search for the words "the"
> and "an" not only didn't produce a search result, but also revealed that
>
>
>         Search in namespaces:
>         [  ] List redirects
>
>         ... is NOT pre-selectable in Special:Preferences / My
> Preferences!
>
>         I'm just saying.
>
>
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