Talk:Search issues in MediaWiki 1.11

Number of search results
As noted in the text, one criticism of MediaWiki is that the search results page does not show the number of search results. I'm setting up a company wiki based on MediaWiki 1.15 and would like to modify the search results page so that it looks more as the one on Wikipedia or in fact the search results on this wiki. Can anybody tell me how the modification for the grey box with "Results 1 - 20 of 809 for Test" is done? I couldn't really find any information on that. Any pointers to the right extension, skin, or source file would be appreciated. Thanks, Johannes 81.109.147.68 18:05, 25 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Oh well, it seems that has been changed with MW version 1.16. I just installed 1.16 alpha to have a look and the modifications are there. 81.109.147.68 18:03, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Accented search
I did some research to understand why the MediaWiki search doesn't work well with accented characters (in French) and I think I manage to find some solutions (not sure these are secured ones) --Kevin Lagaisse 15:44, 1 July 2010 (UTC)