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By the way, « Requires (:excerpt:) recipe ».

Gilles.

2011/7/29 <[email protected]>
>
> With several PmWiki powered pages I am experiencing limitations in the Search 
> functionality to a point where searching is nearly useless. This happens when 
> there are a lot of pages (100+) with a large amount of content (50+ words). 
> What happens is, that when using certain search terms, the page which is most 
> relevant is nearly never listed as the first hit. This is because the search 
> results can only be ordered by ctime, title, group etc., but not 
> relevance/search quality.
>
> I was looking into writing a cookbook recipe myself to implement a simple 
> weighted search (e. g. Title 0-20 pts, Description 0-10 pts, other content 
> 0-5 pts) which the results can be sorted by (I used to do weighted searches a 
> lot with mysql). But that would have meant to write an indexing routine of 
> sorts. Of course PmWiki already comes with a simple search index, which 
> basically lists keywords for the pages in the wiki. But the .pageindex seems 
> to have no information about the quantity of these keywords within a specific 
> page.
>
> Any ideas how to implement a weighted search without having to do that from 
> scratch, e. g. adding this to the pagelist? I have to admit, that my 
> understanding of PmWiki's internal functions and programming style is rather 
> limited at this point. I am not so much a developer, more of a designer 
> actually.
>
> Thanks for any input. I think weighted search is the only major feature 
> PmWiki is missing to be a fully grown up wiki/cms.
>
> —Josh
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