On 24/07/07, Sebastian Menge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> dear, a lot of things to say today ...
>
> this arrived today on vim-l
>
> Am Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:26:35 +0200 schrieb Olivier Teuliere:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > The wiki built-in search is not working well. For example, search for
> > the word "plus": no result. However, there are many pages containing
> > this word (even in the title) (cf.
> > http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Category:C_plus_plus in particular).
> >
> > In the beginning, I thought "plus" is too common to be indexed, or is
> > not found because it was originally "+", but a search for "quickfix" is
> > not much better: 4 matches in the titles, while there are at least 9
> > tips with this string in the title...
> >
> > Can this be improved? Currently, using the google search is much more
> > efficient.

Google search is always more efficient - period.

>
> Could someone confirm that, or say why it is that way?

Because the MediaWiki search engine sucks? I wonder if Wikia use the
lucene search extension or not (a new version has recently been
released) - it is supposed to dramatically improve the quality of
search results.

>
> Thanks again, Sebastian.
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