Incorporating native 404 handling support into MediaWiki is part of this
RFC:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Entry_point_routing_and_404_handling

For now you can hack a 404 handler into place using the Special404
extension:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Special404

Right now there's no search input integrated directly into the 404 page.

~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]

On 2013-11-16 3:32 PM, billinghurst wrote:
> At a wiki where I have a long participation, we are looking at an issue of
> bland 404 pages (following mislinks or maybe deleted redirects). The
> interest is whether we could look to give the user an enhanced 404 which
> tells them that the page doesn't exist, AND give the user a shortened
> search result based on their landing url/page title.  I am presuming that
> there is some capability to construct such a page, though wondered whether
> there is something in the greater wikiverse that someone has already done.
> Thanks.
>
> Regards, Billinghurst
>

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