Nino Novak wrote:
> On Monday 19 January 2009 17:44, Clayton wrote:
>>> Mh, for "faq" this does not seem to work.
>>>
>>> Maybe three-letter acronyms are not found by the search? Could you
>>> make them (or at least some of them) searchable? Many abbreviations
>>> have three letters only and - at least for me - it makes sense to
>>> have them searchable.
>> That is a limitation of the MediaWiki search engine.  The search
>> engine is primitive at best, and does not return results as cleanly
>> or as effectively as a Google search.  This is a problem with all
>> MediaWiki based Wikis that use the built in Search.
> 
> how does it work in wikipedia then?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=faq&fulltext=Search

MediaWiki is using MW 1.14 alpha, we're using 1.13.3 stable.  MediaWiki
is using a Search Extension
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MWSearch and we're using the
default MW search.  We cannot install this extension in the current
server configuration.


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