Just as a note, MediaWiki default (aka
"crappy") search is very
different from the lucene stuff used by Wikimedia. Lucene search is
rather difficult to set up, so most third party wikis do not use it.
--bawolff
On 6/17/13, Nikolas Everett <neverett(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
to have to add to our list. My guess is
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Searching is simply out of date.
Nik
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Chris McMahon
<cmcmahon(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 1:28 PM, S Page
<spage(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >
> * enwiki says "Hello dolly" in quotes gives different results, mw
directly
> contradicts this. Even on my local wiki, quotes make a difference.
>
> * enwiki disagrees with itself what a dash in front of a word does.
>
I did some research a few weeks ago on the current state of Search and
there are a number of discrepancies between the documentation and
actual
behavior. Some of them have BZ tickets, like
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44238
-Chris
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