Talk:RSS Output

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[edit] Searching for 3-letter words

I'm guessing you're using MySQL Fulltext searching to search the wiki. The default is a 4-letter word minimum, which means searching for a 3-letter word such as RSS returns no results. I suggest changing the default to 3 characters. This involves changing a config setting and rebuilding the index. Greenman 01:16, 16 May 2006 (CEST)

It looks easy enough to do (link). However, since it involves changes to mysql and not mediawiki we can let Marco decide how much of a punishment his sql server can take. Also won't it be a problem indexing pages which contain common words like like the and suchlike? --sameer 05:31, 16 May 2006 (CEST)

No, the most common words such as the are by default excluded (and this is configurable too). The extra punishment is minimal, and should be a fair price to pay for a more usable search. Greenman 20:51, 16 May 2006 (CEST)

Just a friendly reminder about this - I found myself searching in vain for RSS again today :) Greenman 00:11, 17 June 2006 (CEST)

I'd rather not mess with Mysqld's global settings, as we have a couple business-critical, high-volume websites running off the same daemon. --Marco 07:30, 19 June 2006 (CEST)