-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Moin, On Sunday 25 February 2007 04:51:00 Rob Church wrote: I will be equally blunt: If you do not want to contribute to the solution, stay quiet. There is no need for such rude and useless answers wasting all our time, including yours. So, make it more accessible. It is not easily findable. I *know* I done this modification on a wiki, but I be damned if I could find it again in 5 minutes. Countless searches with google with different keyword combos have yielded nothing so far. So I looked at: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sysadmin_hub And I can't see where I would even begin looking for that info - or at least everywhere I looked it wasn't described. (It wasn't under configuration) After some more coffee I finally trawled through the FAQ and hit was hidden here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:FAQ#...is_a_search_for_a_short_keyword_g… Conneting "short keyword" with "3 letter word" is the key to finding the answer. I can only imagine how hard this is for non-native speakers. Best wishes, Tels - -- Signed on Sun Feb 25 11:24:08 2007 with key 0x93B84C15. Get one of my photo posters: http://bloodgate.com/posters PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. "The UAC is making safer worlds through superior firepower."

Hi Mike, I found the information at the link a bit too much info for my needs - so I googled around (having more of an idea of what I was looking for) and found some instructions for windows. These instructions are below along with bits that I have added for my particular setup - I am running WAMP on windows (not that it should make too much difference?) Run Services.msc Select the wampmysqld service and then press Alt and Enter Look at the details in 'Path to executable': c:\wamp\mysql\bin\mysqld-nt.exe --defaults-file=c:\wamp\mysql\my.ini wampmysqld Open Windows Explorer and browse to c:\wamp\mysql\ and open my.ini Add the following: [mysqld] ft_min_word_len = 3 The open your browser and goto http://localhost to get to myphpadmin Select the wiki database Repair wikidb.searchindex I did actually select all of my wiki tables to repair and they all gave me the "The storage engine for the table doesn't support repair" message expect for the wikidb.searchindex table. Hope that this helps. Mike -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Michael Daly Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 12:09 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Search for 3 letter words / Acronyms Tels wrote: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:FAQ#...is_a_search_for_a_short_keyword_gi ving_no_hits.3F The advice at the MySQL web site indicates that you have to repair the FULLTEXT tables. For those of us that are not familiar with the gory details of the Mediawiki database, which are the relevant tables? I suspect that "xx_text" table is an obvious one, but should the "xx_page" table be done too? Any others? When I run REPAIR TABLE kw_text QUICK;, I get the result: "The storage engine for the table doesn't support repair" The info provided seems to suggest that it works for the ISAM tables - what if I used INNO-DB? Mike _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Thanks for your help - I got it working now. Your help is very much appreciated. Mike -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jim Hu Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 7:25 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Search for 3 letter words / Acronyms You have to modify your mysql configuration. The default is to only index words of 4 characters or longer. I believe the configuration is in my.ini. This was actually the first question I had answered by the very helpful mediawiki community when I asked it many months ago. ===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054 On Feb 24, 2007, at 10:19 PM, Mike Lane wrote: _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l