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#1 2007-05-16 09:26:48

eliabramo
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From: Haifa, Israel
Registered: 2006-12-10
Posts: 29

problem with Wiki search

There is problem in the search bar in the Wiki. I can never find the right page.
For example, I search for guide to build ssh server. I type "ssh" in the searchbar and find nothing. when i type "openssh" i find a guide called "Using SSHD and SSH". why I didn't find it on the first search?
(it is not because of the capital letters).

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#2 2007-05-16 11:16:39

Sigi
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From: Thurgau, Switzerland
Registered: 2005-09-22
Posts: 1,131

Re: problem with Wiki search

you can't search for terms with less than 4 letters for some obscure reason


Haven't been here in a while. Still rocking Arch. smile

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#3 2007-05-16 11:24:09

eliabramo
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From: Haifa, Israel
Registered: 2006-12-10
Posts: 29

Re: problem with Wiki search

OK. how could I forgot it? roll

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#4 2007-05-16 11:29:42

Pierre
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From: Bonn
Registered: 2004-07-05
Posts: 1,964
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Re: problem with Wiki search

File a Feature Request at the Bug Tracker. This issue could be easily fixed.

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#5 2007-05-16 21:13:58

neotuli
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From: London, UK
Registered: 2004-07-06
Posts: 1,204
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Re: problem with Wiki search

I guess I forgot to mention it in the previous thread [1], but the decision was made to keep the 3 character limit as is. Far more thought went into that not-so-arbitrary limit than I would like to go through myself (it's a mysql default, what can i say?), and mysql already eats enough processor, I'd prefer not to make it worse.

[1] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=31582


The suggestion box only accepts patches.

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#6 2007-05-22 03:42:48

stingray
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From: Lima, Peru SA
Registered: 2006-03-24
Posts: 188

Re: problem with Wiki search

This just killed my search also. I was seeing if there was any info on "xen", nope none... but wait, if I google for it I find it...

So a quick work around for the 3 character limit is to use Google...

some examples:
archlinux xen
site:wiki.archlinux.org ssh
site:wiki.archlinux.org xen

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#7 2007-05-22 03:59:59

Purch
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From: Finland
Registered: 2006-02-23
Posts: 229

Re: problem with Wiki search

Then lets add a google search box to the wiki page that has a default "site:wiki.archlinux.org" in it?

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#8 2007-06-05 23:01:59

byte
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From: Düsseldorf (DE)
Registered: 2006-05-01
Posts: 2,046

Re: problem with Wiki search

*bump*


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#9 2007-06-24 06:23:34

karsten
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Registered: 2006-07-14
Posts: 261

Re: problem with Wiki search

agreed.  wiki-search just plain sucks

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