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 well documented.
--bawolff On 6/17/13, Nikolas Everett <never...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > 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 <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Searching is simply out of date.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 >> > _______________________________________________ > 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
