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 <never...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > 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 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Searching is simply out of date.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 McMahon > <cmcma...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 1:28 PM, S Page <sp...@wikimedia.org> 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 weeks ago on the current state of Search and >> there are a number of discrepancies between the documentation and actual >> behavior. Some of them have BZ tickets, like >> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44238 >> -Chris >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
