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

[Emil Podlaszewski]

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.

Emil

2008/9/23 Danny Horn <danny at wikia-inc.com>:
> 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.
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> -- Danny
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> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 7:29 PM, John Beckett <johnb.beckett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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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