On Tuesday 20 January 2009 06:57, Clayton wrote:
> 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=Sea
> >rch
>
> 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.

ok
Nino

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