This problem indeed seems to be overcome in the newer version 2.x, as I myself have tried out on the search term "text" on the test content page https://moinmoin2.pythonanywhere.com/ . The search mechanism has been refined (being called "whoosh"), introducing a "scoring system" to rank search results (cf. https://moinmoin2.pythonanywhere.com/+serve/docs/user/search.html?highlight=score ).
greetings, kalle On Tue, 2023-04-18 at 11:31 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, 2023-04-16 at 17:41 +0200, kalle wrote: > > > This to my eyes makes the search box confusing and therefore the Debian > > Wiki a bit unattractive. > > Unfortunately it won't be possible to fix this any time soon. The > software we use (MoinMoin 1.x) is EOL and the replacement (2.x) is not > yet released nor available in Debian. There is a demo site available, > but that doesn't have any Debian content yet, however you might be able > to test if this issue is fixed and send feedback to the Moin folks. > > https://github.com/moinwiki/moin/ > https://moinmoin2.pythonanywhere.com/ >
