Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki Inter-Searchability

2011-03-22 Thread Tod
On 03/21/2011 2:36 PM, Marco Schuster wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Tod wrote: >> Is this possible? Is the wiki search driven by a crawler that would >> follow the links on that new wiki home page? If not, is there an >> approach I could follow to be able to provide search ca

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki Inter-Searchability

2011-03-21 Thread Walter McGinnis
Hi, An approach we take with the Kete app is to have each instance have an OpenSearch interface available (i.e. search results can be obtained in RSS/Atom form from a URL that contains the search terms) and then allow each instance to return its own search results in a main results area with a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki Inter-Searchability

2011-03-21 Thread Svemir Brkic
> I've never tried it personally, but I think SphinxSearch may be worth > a check; it works directly against the database. Sphinx itself can index multiple wikis. SphinxSearch extension can query any number of indexes. The problem is, extension currently assumes all of them are in the same wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki Inter-Searchability

2011-03-21 Thread Marco Schuster
Hi, On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Tod wrote: > Is this possible?  Is the wiki search driven by a crawler that would > follow the links on that new wiki home page?  If not, is there an > approach I could follow to be able to provide search capability against > a select number of these individua

[Wikitech-l] Wiki Inter-Searchability

2011-03-21 Thread Tod
I'm working with a group that has customized their mediawiki installation so that they can create multiple wiki instances, each with their own database, that have no knowledge of each others existence. This was done for security and privacy reasons. They now would like to be able to search a nu