Thread:Project:Support desk/Search indexing affected by less-than sign? (2)/reply (2)

Hi!

Yes, thank you. I think that could be the reason. If it is, I would ideally like to find out the full details of what's happening, and consider modifying "Help:Searching".

Does anyone know of public MediaWiki wikis (without any search extension) that might not mind if I did a quick test of this? I tried testing with the Project:Sandbox here, but had some problems, and anyway this wiki (www.mediawiki.org) does use Lucene (I believe), and some other search extensions listed here.

Or is it very rare not to use a search extension? Does anyone really bother with the built-in search functionality?

Thanks