Thread:Project:Support desk/ Novice Search Indexing and Optmization

Please pardon any ignorance in the questions to follow. I am employed by a company that is using an internal wiki hosted on Mediawiki. The search functionality does not seem to bring back what is needed. I have been tasked with 'optmizing' this search. I was under the impression that since it uses MySQL fulltext that I could inject keywords to the page. While this will allow the page to show up int he results, it does not affect the ranking. Basically I need more control over this ranking preferably with keywords.

It is important to note, I only have access to edit this. I do not have access to the server side which is where the indexing is. According to the individual who manages this - we have the most recent version of MediaWiki. Originally we had Lucene/MWSearch but the IT person has also recently installed CirrusSearch/ElasticSearch. The following extensions are installed: Cite, ConfirmEdit, DynamicPageList, Gadgets, googleAnalytics, ImageMap, InputBox, intersection, Interwiki, LocalisationUpdate, Nuke, ParserFunctions, PdfHandler, Poem, Renameuser, ReplaceText, SimpleAntiSpam, SpamBlacklist, SphinxSearch, SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi, TitleBlacklist, Vector, Widgets, WikiEditor.

I have tried everything I can think of from my end and know how to do, but now I am at a standstill. Any advice/resources/steps you can send or point me towards are greatly appreciated. Thank you!