Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:33:35 UTC
Let's say you have a document in the WIKI containign the following phrase: "This is only a test phrase. Lets see what happens." I now search for 'phra' which should match this document as this text is a subpattern of a word in that document. But it doesn't match, it only matches if I search for 'phrase'. This is bad, because we have many documents that contain domainnames e.g. so if someone searches for 'test' he should find pages containing 'test123.example.com', but currently no pages are found. Is there a patch that supports searching for subpatterns?
I'm not sure which wiki you're using, but try wildcarding: phra* test* Re-open this if you find you have a related bug or feature request.
This does not work either. We are using standard Mediawiki 1.4.0.
Check the mailing list archives, you'll find discussion of a patch for the search to let '*' through. Also, upgrade! 1.4.0 is old, buggy, and has security holes. No one ANYWHERE should be using it.
See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching#No regular expressions or wildcards You cannot use regular expressions or wildcards such as ? or *. If you don't know what that is, don't worry about it. To search for pages with the words "boat" or "boats" search like this: "boat or boats". This feature is definitely missing - many of my users complain about it...
Yes, that´s what is really annoying. But what about wikipedia which is based on MediaWiki as far as I know. WikiPedia supports Wildcard-search to a certain extend. see Wikipedia documentation: Wildcards You can use some limited wildcards if you really want to. See Boolean fulltext search for details on their use. However, wildcard searches are slower, so go easy on the poor server. Does Wikipedia use a different search engine then???
*** Bug 7719 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fixed in r25794; wildcard matches now work as originally intended but never quite implemented right.
