GuildWiki talk:Searching

Case correct?
Is the info about case correct? It doesn't seem to make any difference for me.
 * yep, it's correct, try searching for TOA and ToA Alexanderpas Talk 05:00, 1 May 2006 (CDT)
 * Case is irrelevant in names with one or two words. With 3 or more words the search is case sensitive. I put this in the article earlier but it was removed. --Gem [[Image:Gem-icon-sm.png]] 05:33, 1 May 2006 (CDT)
 * Hmm... Indeed toa and TOA don't work. LiTtLe tHoM however works. --Gem [[Image:Gem-icon-sm.png]] 05:34, 1 May 2006 (CDT)
 * Based on a read thru of the MediaWiKi help, I don't believe a 3-character term will be used in a search unless a special procedure is invoked. --Separ
 * Is there a reason for that? It's (for me) totally unobvious, e.g. "aura of the lich" will bring up search results and "Aura of the Lich" the article, while "dark bond" and "Dark Bond" both lead directly to the article. (I'd prefer a search that was always case-insensitive.) 134.130.4.46 14:21, 27 September 2006 (CDT)
 * "Aura of the Lich" is an exact match for an article name, so it takes you there. "aura of the lich" is not, so (in 1.8, though we're running 1.7.1 so it might be different, but I don't think so) it tries to find "Aura of the lich," "Aura Of The Lich," and "AURA OF THE LICH."  None of those match, so it falls back on a text search.  --Fyren 14:38, 27 September 2006 (CDT)
 * My point was that the current behaviour is unintuitive from a user's POV, and a request for reasoning/change. Explaining how the software works internally to produce the current behaviour does not help there (but "it's the way mediawiki works, and we can't patch it easily/don't want to" would be).
 * Besides, your description does not match "Search is case insensitive when using one or two words", unless it's "1-2 words: case-insensitive, more words: certain capitalisation variants are tried", which would be even more unobvious. 134.130.4.46 07:52, 29 September 2006 (CDT)
 * Actually, Fyren is looking into modifying the search. He posted a message for the sys admin to allow a code change.  Not sure if he got a reply yet or not. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 08:49, 29 September 2006 (CDT)
 * Thanks, that's what I wanted to know. 134.130.4.46 04:18, 1 October 2006 (CDT)
 * I've also restarted a discussion at GuildWiki_talk:Redirect. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 10:17, 1 October 2006 (CDT)
 * If there's no exact match it tries the three things I mentioned, though I didn't fully qualify what they were doing, just what gets tried for the AotL example. For a search for "dArK BoND," it tries all lowercase ("dark bond"; by default MW is first-letter case insensitive), first letters uppercased ("Dark Bond"), then all uppercase ("DARK BOND").  It'll also try to uppercase hypenated words, so "dARk-bOND" tries "dark-bond," "Dark-bond," "DARK-BOND," and "Dark-Bond."  Things with mixed case like "Aura of the Lich" will never match using these heuristics.  What Gem said earlier is wrong.  It just seems like two word searches are insensitive since these heuristics will (possibly always?) match given our article names.  --Fyren 09:25, 29 September 2006 (CDT)

guildwiki searchengine ?
Is there a way I can add guildwiki searchengine 2 my firefox search bar ?
 * I could make the 'plugin' for it, but I'd need Biro or someone to make an icon. --Fyren 15:36, 13 September 2006 (CDT)
 * I think someone made a plugin already. Check the GWG GuildWiki forum, one of the earlier posts.  --Rainith 16:03, 13 September 2006 (CDT)
 * May be it will be a good idea to get authors permission and host this mod on guildwiki?
 * Not exactly part of the search bar but you can make a link in Firefox that prompts you to search for things on GWWiki. It's a modified version of a link button I swiped from merriam-webster's dictionary. If you want to try something even quicker, you can use the same code below, put it on the "Bookmarks Toolbar" of firefox; edit the properties of the bookmark button you just created; in the Keyword field put something small like "gw" or even "g" (without the quotes); click OK. Now all you have to do in the browser window is press Ctrl+L to highlight the address bar, type "gw" or "g" (whatever you put), press enter and voila, easy quick way to search. Ctrl+L, then keyword. Simple as that. Here's the code: javascript:word=document.getSelection;if(!word){void(word=prompt('Enter the exact term for the Wikipedia entry:',''))}if(word)location.href='http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Special:Search?search='+escape(word)+'&fulltext=Search'

--Spread 04:35, 1 December 2006 (CST)

Name
Shouldn't this be GuildWiki:Search? Is the "ing" needed for anything? --Karlos 22:58, 13 September 2006 (CDT)
 * Blame the software &mdash; Skuld 01:39, 14 September 2006 (CDT)