Last modified: 2009-12-30 05:23:10 UTC
OpenSearch is a way to retrieve search results using RSS. http://a9.com is the principle supporter of the format. It would be beneficial to retrieve search results from a MediaWiki installation using a standard XML format.
Created attachment 742 [details] OpenSearch RSS Generator This script will generate an OpenRSS compliant feed for a MediaWiki installation. It was developed against 1.5b3, but still might work with 1.4.x. Place the file in any subdirectory of the installation base for it to work.
I have created a MediaWiki special page that returns OpenSearch query results. It is still a work in progress, but it seems to be working all right. The source code can be found at http://opensource.case.edu/svn/MediaWikiHacks/plugins/OpenSearch/trunk/opensearch.php Development documentation can be found at http://opensource.case.edu/projects/MediaWikiHacks/wiki/OpenSearch
Sugest that you publish the wikipedia.org opensearch feeds somewhere since it can then be used as an integrated search provider in IE7
I have updated my OpenSearch special page. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch or http://opensource.case.edu/projects/MediaWikiHacks/wiki/OpenSearch
(I'm a contributor for Firefox) I noticed that the OpenSearch link works in Firefox 2.0, but we have problem because it doesn't include a title-tag. this is also the reason that it doesn't work in Internet Explorer 7. I wrote a bug about it (for FF), and the current resolution is to *disable* support for opensearch-links without a title tag. Please add one soon, so that the automatic installation will work again in the final version of Firefox 2.0 (end of September). See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349431 jo DOT hermans AT gmail DOT com
mozilla bug 349431 is now fixed - we don't offer to install the search-plugin anymore because it doesn't have a title-tag.
Note that at this time we don't have an official OpenSearch feed.
"Experimental" OpenSearch support included in MediaWiki since r16137.
