X2o Wiki search problem

[Eben Eliason]

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 1:16 PM, James Simmons <jim.simmons at walgreens.com> wrote:
> I have a bit of experience setting up MediaWiki for my company.  By
> default search ignores words that are shorter than four letters.  This
> eliminates words like "the", "of", etc.  It is possible to change this
> but  it is a fair amount of work and you would have to reindex
> everything.  The MediaWiki docs explain what is needed.  It might be
> easier to rename the Activity.

Renaming the activity definitely seems unfair.  For that matter, our
hardware is called the XO.  The server hardware is called the XS.  It
sounds like this short-word "hack" should be replaced with a proper
short-word blacklist, allowing other queries through.  We'll only have
to do the work once.

- Eben


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