Last modified: 2011-09-15 21:52:56 UTC
Hi. I would like to enable "prefix" searches for the Foundation Wiki (as here: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Answers). I understand that to get this to work, I need to ask you to turn on lucene search for Foundation Wiki. I believe the change needs to be made here: <http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/lucene.php.txt> I hope this isn't difficult, and would be very grateful if I could get that search functioning up and running. :) Maggie Dennis/Moonriddengirl
As a bit more background the specific use case here is for prefix searches through the inputbox extension which requires Lucene and is possible on the Wikipedia projects with this currently activated on (enWiki plus a couple others)
Lucene is on for all Wikimedia wikis on primary hosting; it should work fine as-is. Looks like your prefix is pointing at the "Answers archive" page... I see that that page is only a couple hours old. It may simply not have made it into the search index yet. You can see another search using a similar prefix that works just fine: http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&redirs=0&search=Wikimedia+prefix%3AOur+projects&fulltext=Search&ns0=1
ahh interesting, I didn't realize the search index took that long to populate. Thanks Brion
Closing for now and if something else is wrong we can troubleshoot that.
