[Wikia-l] Why does full-text search for "CSV" fail?

[Danny Horn]

The search on our wikis doesn't search for three-letter words. I'm not sure
why that's true; I just know that's the case.


-- Danny





On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 7:29 PM, John Beckett <johnb.beckett at gmail.com>wrote:

> Some users have reported that searching for "CSV" does not work on our
> wiki.
> Strangely, searching for "comma" does work (CSV = comma-separated values).
> As a
> workaround, I have made a redirect page with title "CSV", so a default
> search will
> now find our CSV page.
>
> However, why does a full-text search for "CSV" fail (it works on
> Wikipedia)?
>
> One way to test this is to enter "CSV" or "csv" (without quotes) in "Search
> the
> tips" on our main page, then click "Search full text":
> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
>
> John
>
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