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

[George Pribul]

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 <johnb.beckett at gmail.com>

> 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
>
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