MediaWiki Searching

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Some discussion on the topic

• http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2004-August/001066.html
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Searchindex_table
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Custom_namespaces
• http://wp.wikidev.net/Searchindex_update

Rebuild searchindex

php rebuildtextindex.php

Changing the minimum word length for searches

• Edit /etc/my.cnf add user [mysqld]
  • ft_stopword_file=''
  • ft_min_word_len=2
• Restart mysqld
• Run the rebuildtextindex.php scrips (not sure if this is necessary)

The stopword file keeps mysql from ignoring searches for common words. I take it out so we find everything.