VisualEditor sends off a request like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=jsonfm&generator=search&gsrnamespace=6&iiurlheight=200&iiprop=dimensions%7Curl%7Cmediatype%7Cextmetadata%7Ctimestamp%7Cuser&prop=imageinfo&gsrsearch=example&iiurlwidth=400&gsroffset=0&gsrlimit=15
So those rules are determined by your search engine, not VE itself. On 15 January 2016 at 10:53, Daniel Barrett <[email protected]> wrote: > We've installed VisualEditor on our local wiki (1.26.2), and I have a > question about how the "Insert > Media" command works. > > It pops up a search box, and when you enter some text, it displays images. > How is it determining which images "match" my search? The results seem > counterintuitive. > > For instance, if I type "Example", and my wiki contains File:Example.jpg, > this image does NOT come up in the search results. (This seems really odd.) > > A different image named File:Foobar.jpg appears in the results. It has the > word "example" in the text of its File page. However, other images that > also contain the word "example" on their File pages do not appear. (One of > them is File:Example.jpg!) > > I'm using the default MediaWiki search engine (mySQL search), if that > matters. Our production servers run CirrusSearch, but we haven't tried > VisualEditor on those servers yet. > > Thanks, > DanB > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
