https://gw1wiki.ezgame.cc/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Guild_Wars_Wiki%3ARequests_for_technical_administration%2FLuceneSearch 2026-10-18T02:01:12Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.39.17 https://gw1wiki.ezgame.cc/index.php?title=Guild_Wars_Wiki:Requests_for_technical_administration/LuceneSearch&diff=9055&oldid=prev 2008-03-12T20:44:37Z

<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Request for LuceneSearch: </span> Clarification.</span></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>=== Request for LuceneSearch ===<br /> <br /> :;Home-page :<br /> :: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LuceneSearch<br /> <br /> :;Type<br /> :: MediaWiki extension + underlying daemon<br /> <br /> :;Additional software requirements<br /> <br /> ::* Java 5<br /> ::* LSearch daemon (available from the same page as this extension, in both source and binary form)<br /> ::* Apache Ant (if the source form of LSearch is used)<br /> <br /> :;Additional server-side maintenance requirements<br /> :: A cron-job needs to be set up to regularly dump the database to an xml. The command to execute in this cron-job are listed in the installation instructions. This requires that AdminSettings.php is available, and set to a database user with access to the wiki's database. Also requires the lsearch daemon (lsearchd) to be running.<br /> <br /> :: Also note that the trunk on MediaWiki's SVN contains MediaWiki 1.13. Since this wiki is running 1.9, we would have to use the addon [http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/REL1_10/extensions/LuceneSearch/ from 1.10] (as it doesn't use anything new from 1.10), together with 1.10's [http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/REL1_10/extensions/ExtensionFunctions.php ExtensionFunctions.php] file at &lt;code&gt;extensions/ExtensionFunctions.php&lt;/code&gt;.<br /> <br /> :;Reason for request<br /> :: MediaWiki's search engine is horrible. This extension and underlying daemon replaces it with a much better search engine that uses [[w:Lucene|Lucene]] for indexing, with ordering based on relevancy.<br /> <br /> :;What else uses it<br /> :: All Wikimedia projects &amp;mdash; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version Wikipedia], for example &amp;mdash; have it enabled, as does [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Version MediaWiki's own wiki].<br /> <br /> :;Possible pitfalls<br /> :: Lucene indexes together with the xml dump can eat quite a bit of disk space and the server must be running linux. It can also be relatively complicated to set up compared to other extensions due to the daemon.</div>

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