I'd guess it's due to the "less than 4 letters search fail". Mysql is often configured to ignore search with less than 4 letters and you must change that parameter.
See : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual_talk:Configuration_settings#using_search_for_a_3_letter_word Alexis Samuel Marchand wrote : > Hello ! > > My problem is when I try to make a search with a wildcard, the search > engine > doesn't return me any page. For example, if I search "to*", the search > engine > won't return me any solution, and I know "tools" page exists. > > I've experimented the same problem on MediaWiki 1.16 beta1 and on 1.15.3, > with > and without semantic mediawiki enabled. I'm using IE8 (yes it's a shame, > but the > users are not interested in changing their habits...) on WinXP, and my > server is > managed by XAMPP 1.7.2. > > Could you explain me what could be the origin of tthe problem, so I could > correct it ? > > Regards _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
