>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/CirrusSearch
>
This made me realize I have a poor sense of the features in search, so I
read the documentation.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Searching is bare-bones, and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching disagrees. Perhaps
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 1:28 PM, S Page wrote:
> >
> * enwiki says "Hello dolly" in quotes gives different results, mw directly
> contradicts this. Even on my local wiki, quotes make a difference.
>
> * enwiki disagrees with itself what a dash in front of a word does.
>
I did some research a few
I'm not sure about http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Searching but
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching has lots of things we're going
to have to add to our list. My guess is
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Searching is simply out of date.
Nik
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Chris
Just as a note, MediaWiki default (aka "crappy") search is very
different from the lucene stuff used by Wikimedia. Lucene search is
rather difficult to set up, so most third party wikis do not use it.
--bawolff
On 6/17/13, Nikolas Everett wrote:
> I'm not sure about http://www.mediawiki.org/wik
One of our goals while building this has been to make something reasonably
easy to install by folks outside of WMF. I've added some notes about this
to the page. I'd certainly love to hear ways that'd make it simpler to use.
Nik
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Brian Wolff wrote:
> Just as a
I think that from user perspective, such help pages are not very useful
since most users don't read help pages.
Some features (the important ones) should be hinted in the search form
itself.
In hewiki we modified the [[MediaWiki:Search-summary]][1] to include a
small expandable table with hints for
The "true" (old) MediaWiki documentation on search is still on Meta, it
needs to be rewritten on mediawiki.org (PD and up to date):
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching
Nobody reads the help pages, sure. That's why they should be linked from
the special pages etc. as some extensions al
There were over 300,000 views of [[en:Help:Searching]] in June. [1]
It definitely needs some improvement, but having some accurate
documentation of MediaWiki search features to work from would really help.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_Project/page_statistics
Peter
On 18 Jun
My comments are based mostly on second hand knowledge. People who have
tried have often ran into problems, asked for help on #mediawiki, and
nobody knowing anything that can help them. Probably a large part of
the issue is requiring people to install a separate (non-php) program
that's not all that
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Brian Wolff wrote:
> My comments are based mostly on second hand knowledge. People who have
> tried have often ran into problems, asked for help on #mediawiki, and
> nobody knowing anything that can help them. Probably a large part of
> the issue is requiring peop
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