Enhance MediaWiki Search

Question

I was just wondering if I can enhance the search facility in MediaWiki, like returning a suggested Result Set closest to the Search Key instead of return 0 results page.

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Answer 1

Try installing Lucene in place of the default MediaWiki search engine, which merely does MySQL full-text indexing. Lucene not only would solve the above problem, it also would work if you'd mistyped "Guidlines" and ask, "Did you mean 'Guidelines'?"

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lucene-search http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MWSearch

Lucene is nontrivial to install, but the results are well worth it.