[Mediawiki-l] Inconsistent (case-sensitive) search results with MediaWiki 1.6.8

Sun Dec 3 08:08:32 UTC 2006

Hi,

I've recently installed this and it seems generally to work fine, but I get
some annoying results sometimes when searching. I've created one page called
"Bird on the Wire" and another called "Leonard Cohen". When I search for
"Leonard Cohen" or "leonard cohen" it goes straight to the article, likewise
when I type "Bird on the Wire" that also goes direct to that page. But when
I type "bird on the wire", or anything not in *exactly* the same case as the
actual article name e.g. "Bird on the wire", "bird on The Wire" etc, the
results say 'There is no page titled ":bird on The wire". You can create
this page.' (Note the colon before the search term - this always comes up
when the search term can't be found.) The article title matches below this
message do list the existing "Bird on the Wire" article so at least that's
working, but obviously I don't want users to be able to create a duplicate
article.

I guess maybe this is a bug in this older version of MediaWiki but I have to
use this version because my web hosts have PHP4.4.3 installed and I
understand later versions need PHP5.

Thanks,
Richard