[wp-hackers] Updating Codex to newer MediaWiki version

Robin Adrianse robin.adr at gmail.com
Sun Dec 9 02:18:12 GMT 2007


For exact word matches, yeah, but it's horrible if you spelled something
wrong. Google corrects for this -- maybe the Codex should go through Google?

On Dec 8, 2007 6:10 PM, Viper007Bond <viper at viper007bond.com> wrote:

> Well, as I think we've all seed on Wikipedia, the search works fine, so...
>
> On 12/8/07, Martin at Cleaver.org <Martin at cleaver.org> wrote:
> >
> > I have no objection to the technology being used (indeed, I much prefer
> it
> > to the forums). The search may well get better if the site was upgraded
> to
> > a
> > recent version.
> >
> > If the search fails in a recent version of Mediawiki then by all means
> > replace or supplement it with Google Search.
> >
> > Cheers, M.
> >
> > On Dec 8, 2007 3:03 PM, Ozh <ozh at planetozh.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Dec 8, 2007 8:38 PM, Johannes Ruthenberg <johannes at bolarus.de>
> wrote:
> > > > Just wanted to emphasize this last point! It's really annoying,
> doing
> > a
> > > > search in the codex and getting empty pages ("This page has no
> content
> > > > yet." or something like that) as half of the search results.
> > > >
> > >
> > > The Codex is really not that bad. About 90% of support request on
> > > #wordpress are redirected to a Codex page.
> > >
> > > And the search function is fine... if you use Google to search in it
> :)
> > > <http://www.google.com/search?q=the_title+site%3Acodex.wordpress.org>
> > >
> > > Ozh
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