User talk:RaZe

File indexer
Hi RaZe, thank you very much for this. If it covers the same functionality please feel free to replace "mine" with "yours". If you want to, you can add yourself to the developers in the box. I'd be glad, if someone would be willing to continue developing this thing, since I don't work with MediaWiki at work any more. I changed the company and they're running a Foswiki :(( What do you think? --Flominator 18:54, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi Flominator. first of all: thx for your message. I am very glad that I didn't start a rumor by editing your extensionpage without asking for permission previously.
 * As I saw in you userpage you are member of 'German Wikipedia'. This and the fact that the first message on you usertalk was in german, können wir auch gern deutsch kommunizieren, was mir unheimlich viel leichter fällt :D Aber da dies eine englisch geführte Seite ist, I think english would be prefered by anyone else... may be a good exercise.
 * To be true: I have no experiences with your companies type of wiki. My first real contact with wikis in general was during my final thesis at university. It was directly connected with the mediawiki-engine...
 * Back to topic: I will release a small change to the extention right now but to change the whole content of the page I will have to find an other day. I will come back to this later. Thx for your trust in my work :-D --Razqubik 14:21, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you for doing it. Can you maybe translate the comments to English? Regards, --Flominator 19:42, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I will do so next time. --Razqubik 07:50, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi RaZe

It looks like you are the only person that can help me with this extension. I saw that you replied on the discussions page, and from above discussion it looks like you took over the extension. I would greatly appreciate some help with this. I think I'm misunderstanding how this extension works.


 * I go to the 'Special:FileIndexer' page.
 * In the edit box I put in the following: 'File:SomeDocument.docx', then I click "create".
 * If I then search for a word I know is in the document, it still finds nothing.

Please Help me,

--Johannekie 16:05, 14 June 2010 Hi. As a first shot try and analyse the following:
 * is 'File' a valid namespace which is enabled in your search configurations / did you enable it on seachtime?
 * please review the content of your article 'File:SomeDocument.docx' - did something change?
 * please post the following values from your LocalSettings.php: globals $wgFiPrefix and $wgFiPostfix
 * set $wgFiCheckSystem to true and check if the requirements are installed

--RaZe 21:19, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Hi RaZe, the FileInder Extention runs not in MW 1.16.x, Can you fix it? --Swus 12:46, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi Swus. I think it will please you that I am really short to a totaly new version of this extension with a much improved spezialpage and much more. It will also run on mw 1.16 . Greetings --RaZe 14:26, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
 * New version (for 1.16) available now. Greetings --RaZe 16:13, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Link to a working wiki with FileIndexer?
Hi RaZe,

Thanks for creating this extension. I was wondering if you could provide a link to a wiki that has a working version (perhaps your own). I'm a novice programmer and am trying to find the best way to index pdf files so that they are searchable.

Thanks in advance, Dana (dchandXXler@mit.edu, without the XXs)


 * Hi. I awfully sorry but i dont have any list of public wikis using FileIndexer. I am just running internal wikis - they are using it but you will not be ale to access them. Awfully i dont have any demo system running. :(
 * --RaZe 02:46, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Hej RaZe,

we are willing to develop and promote a fully functioning demo mediawiki with file-indexer and Tesseract (further goal OCRopus) as an OCR GNU solution and started quite a bit of development already. I'd be thrilled to have you discuss and talk with us for just a brief moment. It would be great to have you as our advisor. Danke schön. CollinBloom2 12:16, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi CollinBloom2
 * How can I be of service for you? Gern doch ;) --RaZe 07:44, 31 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi RaZe,
 * thanks for the quick response. We are trying to index multiple PDF's with the help of FileIndexer. We have the documents on the server, and we would like to call FileIndexer functions by script to index all the PDF's in a
 * given location. We would be very graceful if you cud give us a hint.