Still working on the easiest solution. Found /Special:PrefixIndex
This is very close to what I want though instead of prefix I want to return a list of any page with a string in the name case insensitive. Better option may still be some combination of api/js/css -denis On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 10:07:39PM +0000, Chad wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 2:03 PM Denis Hainsworth <denis.hainswo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I've been trying to find the right way to do this, unsure if its easy > > and if so what the easiest way to go about it would be > > (api,extension,skin,etc) mediawiki is almost too configurable. > > > > Meidawiki with cirrussearch is pretty good, however I miss one big thing > > from our previous moinmoin setup and thats a quick simple search and > > display of wiki article titles. > > > > What I would like is a button which will take the string from the search > > field in mediawiki, perform a title search to grab any article with that > > string in the title and disaply all the articles , titles only, in > > alphabetic order. > > > > Any suggestions if such a thing already exists or what my best avenue to > > approach this would be given the various ways one can modify mediawiki ? > > > > appreciate any thoughts on the topic. > > we have a fairly small private wiki so this kind of search works really > > well, for myself at least. > > > > > You'll want to use the "intitle:" operator in the search field. So if you > search > for "intitle:Oatmeal" it'll only return results with Oatmeal in the title :) > > If you're wanting just a list, no snippets or anything like on > Special:Search, > you could do this via the API. > > -Chad -- __________________________ Denis Alan Hainsworth denis.hainswo...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
