Extension:Woogle4MediaWiki

Woogle4MediaWiki replaces MediaWiki's built-in search and improves searching MediaWiki in several ways. There is a native PHP implementation for searching the Wiki only (WoogleNative) and an implementation for searching various data sources via an Integrated Search backend from within your MediaWiki (WoogleRemote). Woogle4MediaWiki thus allows you to search multiple MediaWiki instances (and also other Wiki engines).

Woogle also
 * introduces social search features within your Wiki - i.e. lets you collaboratively describe, discuss and rank queries and results
 * adds a small mouseover information window to "red links" to highlight the demand for that page
 * allows you to receive notifications about changes in the Wiki based on keywords ("WoogleAlerts")
 * provides aggregate search statistics about popular as well as unsatisfied searches

See further information, slidecasts and an online demo at http://www.teamweaver.org/wiki/index.php/Woogle4MediaWiki/Decider_manual.

Usage
See http://www.teamweaver.org/wiki/index.php/Woogle4MediaWiki/User_manual or directly jump to the online demo at http://amazonas.fzi.de/wooglenative/

Download instructions
Download Woogle at http://www.teamweaver.org/wiki/index.php/Woogle4MediaWiki

Installation
see http://www.teamweaver.org/wiki/index.php/Woogle4MediaWiki/Admin_manual#Installation

Configuration parameters
see http://www.teamweaver.org/wiki/index.php/Woogle4MediaWiki/Admin_manual#Configuration

License
Woogle4MediaWiki is available under the GPL. Note however, that Woogle4MediaWiki currently depedends on three external libraries (see Acknowledgements), which use different licenses.

Used libraries
Woogle makes use of the following external code:
 * HessianPHP- LGPL (for WoogleRemote)
 * Zend Search - New BSD (for WoogleNative)
 * jQuery - GPL/MIT

We thank those external developers and all contributors to the MediaWiki core.