Good text search for a company intranet?

I let slip at work that I know something about MediaWiki and
now have
been asked about a text search function that doesn't suck
for another
department's MediaWiki installation.

It looks like an install of 1.5b3 that someone installed and
forgot
about. I presume it's only got the default search that comes
in the
tarball - is that MySQL full-text search or Lucene? If the
former,
does anyone have a list of better text searches and how to
install
them? Proprietary or semi-proprietary is not an issue as
long as it's
free-beer.

(They don't have a sysadmin either [!], so this one might
end up being
mine too ...)


- d.
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David Gerard wrote:
> I let slip at work that I know something about
MediaWiki and now have
> been asked about a text search function that doesn't
suck for another
> department's MediaWiki installation.
> 
> It looks like an install of 1.5b3 that someone
installed and forgot
> about. I presume it's only got the default search that
comes in the
> tarball - is that MySQL full-text search or Lucene?

MySQL.

> If the former,
> does anyone have a list of better text searches and how
to install
> them? Proprietary or semi-proprietary is not an issue
as long as it's
> free-beer.

The MySQL search engine mostly works, but is kind of picky;
the default
minimum word size and stop-list kind of suck. You can adjust
these
things in MySQL; I believe there's a faq entry on this.

I wouldn't necessarily recommend using our Lucene-based
system at this
time; while it searches ok the the updating process is kind
of a pain
and the configuration and dependencies are finicky.

If you want the best, though, just buy yourself a Google
search
appliance. ;)

-- brion vibber (brion  pobox.com)
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mediawiki-l-bouncesWikimedia.org schrieb am 15.11.2006
13:27:55:
 
> If you want the best, though, just buy yourself a
Google search
> appliance. ;)
> 
> -- brion vibber (brion  pobox.com)
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...which sometimes isn't really an option because of limited
budget.

-- chris
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