Sphinx (http://sphinxsearch.com/) and Extension:SphinxSeatch ( https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SphinxSearch) Simple and efficient. It has everything you described in you UR. Ciao On Jun 29, 2015 2:52 PM, "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. > > * 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). > > 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. > > Thanks for your time, > Brenton > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
