On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Brenton Horne <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I would like to allow advanced searches on my Local Wikis (MySQL > databases: HMWiki, Linux_Wiki) and I was wondering which MediaWiki > extensions will allow me to do this. Now I realize what I'm saying so far > is casting my net a bit wide so odds are many of you won't know what to > recommend so I'm going to give some examples of what I want to be able to > do with such a search: > > * Enable searching specific parts of pages like its title, category(ies), > section(s), section(s) titles, body (i.e., the text other than the page's > title), etc. Instead of searching the entire page the way Wiki searches do > by default. > I don't believe you can do this with the MySQL backed search implementation. At this point on site search at WMF is provided by CirrusSearch backed by Elasticsearch. If you are willing to go through the setup process then you'll get things like incategory and insource and intitle. There isn't a specific syntax to limit the search to section titles or the body. > * Support for Boolean operators (e.g., AND, OR, ANDNOT, etc.) between > search criteria (e.g., I would like to search for pages belonging to more > than one category. For example, I would be looking for pages belonging to > category $1 AND category $2 AND category $3). > This exists in CirrusSearch to some degree. Searching for ```foo AND (bar OR baz)``` works but ```intitle:foo AND (incategory:bar OR incategory:baz)``` doesn't. We're working to fix that but its difficult because we painted ourselves into a corner implementation wize. > > Now my experience with this mailing list tells me not to expect a response > here for days at least. But I also know that this list also gets about 2-10 > messages per day, depending on the day. I don't want my email server to get > packed with emails that I'm not interested in (as I'm afraid I'm pretty > useless as far as helping others with issues relating to MW, I'm really > just here to receive help not to provide it) so I will stay on this list > for probably at most a week: if you send a reply and get no answer from me > within a 12 hours odds are I won't be receiving emails from this list any > more so it would be best to just send your emails to my email address: > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. > > > Further information > > * MediaWiki version: 1.25.1. > * MySQL, PHP, Lua (I have the Scribunto extension enabled on both Wikis), > Apache, /etc./ are all maintained as the latest versions available for the > operating system specified below. > * Operating system: 32 bit Ubuntu 15.04. > * Understanding of PHP and other programming languages used in MediaWiki: > novice. Use simple English please. I can follow simple instructions, like > add these lines to this file and save it here, but if you give me a task > without explicit step-by-step instructions odds are I won't be able to > follow ya. > > > Setting up CirrusSearch involves: * Installing Elasticsearch somewhere your wiki can access it. * Firewalling Elasticsearch (or otherwise locking it down) and set some configuration variables and restarting it. * Setting some globals. * Running two maintenance scripts. It works much better if you are using Redis for the MediaWiki job queue but works OK without it. So its somewhat involved but nowhere near the undocumented process of setting up the search that was in use a year ago. I couldn't guess how long it'd take you. There are folks in freenode's #wikimedia-search who could help at least 16 hours a day, five days a week. Nik _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
