Extension:MathSearch

The MathSearch extension integrates the MathWeb Search engine as well as the BaseX search engine to MediaWiki.

Prerequisites
This extension requires some preconfiguration effort. You should plan 15 to 20 minutes for the installation of the prerequisites.
 * Math Extension in LaTeXML mode see here
 * A local installation of the MathWeb Search daemon as described in here is recommended.
 * A local installation of the BaseX REST search as described here.

At the current stage of development only MySQL is supported as database type.

For some features Extension:Geshi is required.

Configuration parameters
$wgMWSUrl: The link to your (local) MathWeb Search installation e.g. "http://localhost:8090";

$wgMathSearchBaseX: The link to your (local) BaseX installation e.g. "http://localhost:10043";

Text search
Text search works best with CirrusSearch, but the default MySQL search works as well.

Indexing
In order to use the MathSearch capabilities you have to create indexes for the formulas in your wiki. At the moment updates are not supported. So you have to re-index every time the equations change. If you have frequent changes it might be good to install a cron-job.

Change to cd /your/path/to/mediawiki/extensions/MathSearch/maintenance run php UpdateMath.php run php CreateMWSHarvest.php /srv/mathsearch/mws-dump/ 30000 --mwsns="mws:"

This is the default (MWS_HARVEST_PATH="../data/wiki") path. If you have changed the path in /your/path/to/mediawiki/extensions/MathSearch/mws/config/mws_services.conf you have to specify another part