Good point - I've expanded the 'error' message with that, and also a few
other conditions like common words ("have", "from") being ignored.-Kirkburn Wikia Gaming / WoWWiki 2008/9/23 John Beckett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Emil Podlaszewski wrote: > > That's how the MySQL full-text search works by default. And > > this our primary backend right now. > > > > We could switch vim.wikia.com to the Lucene backend which > > doesn't have this limitation. However the search results page > > will look different. > > There is no distinction between "page title matches" and > > "page text matches". You can see how it works on WoWWiki > > (http://www.wowwiki.com/Special:Search?search=vim&go=1) > > > > If you decide to give it a try and switch please let me know. > > Thanks Emil and Danny. > > I think we can stay with the current search system. At least I now > understand that > there is a reason and it's not some random glitch. > > I have edited the MediaWiki:Nonefound text by adding "Words less than four > characters are ignored" so users are given a clue. Perhaps that text should > be the > default? > > John > > _______________________________________________ > Wikia-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l >
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