Manual talk:$wgEnableMWSuggest

Usage???

 * This worked for me under MediaWiki 1.13alpha:


 * Change www.example.com to your own domain and /wiki/ to your $wgScriptPath. -- Sayuri 20:51, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * You don't need to set $wgMWSuggestTemplate anymore in MW 1.13.0: the suggestion template is set to a reasonable default value. Maiden taiwan 02:48, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Also be sure that $wgEnableAPI is not set to false and that you use 1.13. i Alex  20:54, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm not able to get it working either. Are there any known conflicts that I should be aware of? Joezoo 14:40, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * (By the way, I'm using LuceneSearch on MW 1.13 with MWSearch installed. $wgUseAjax and $wgEnableMWSuggest are both set to true.) --Joezoo 14:52, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Never mind! I got it working! Turns out, when I updated from the last version of MediaWiki, I didn't copy the new contents of skins/common, which included the mwsuggest and new ajax files. But now it's working! --Joezoo 15:38, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Features?
Apart from the first character, this seems to be case-sensitive, which is a pity - who uses uppercase in search terms? Any way to get this case-insensitive? (don't know how to get this username-and timestamp - there are no edit-buttons here and it's not obvious where to look on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing - sorry.)
 * There's Extension:TitleKey to make suggestions case-insensitve (enbaled on Wikimedia wikis). i Alex  17:32, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
 * cool, thanks - it works. Would be even cooler to have arbitrary substring matching and additional Namespaces. (and the editing buttons are back so here's my sig :) --Heiko Haller 19:07, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

How to remove search suggest terms?
I'm relatively new to mediawiki so I accidentally created a page with an "&" symbol in it. Naturally, this created a truncated page title. However, in the search suggest dropdown it indexed it with the entire title including the "&" in it. I've modified the page to spell out "and" instead. But, the search suggest term remained (with the original "&" symbol in it). I tried deleting the record in the _searchindex table of the database, but it didn't affect the search suggested terms. Anyone know how to get rid of it? --Hahn73 20:51, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Figured it out. In case anyone else needs to know - you need to delete the record from both the searchindex table AND the page table. --Hahn73 21:32, 11 March 2009 (UTC)


 * To delete a record from the page table is quite risky! In your specific case it was not necessary: after you move the page to the new title, just delete the old title (that has now become a redirect page) and it will disappear from the searches. Capmo 17:18, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Extend the search
Can this be extended to search more than just the first word in a title?

For example, I'm looking for an article titled Pixar's Disney Toy Story

However, all I know is that Disney had some part in Toy Story.

I would start typing Dis.. and realize that nothing is coming up in the ajax search.

Is there a way to set the index to index more? Or another work around to do more?

Thanks


 * For these situations there is already the Search button, that will locate the typed word inside titles and pages. Capmo 17:24, 30 March 2009 (UTC)