On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 2:03 PM Denis Hainsworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been trying to find the right way to do this, unsure if its easy > and if so what the easiest way to go about it would be > (api,extension,skin,etc) mediawiki is almost too configurable. > > Meidawiki with cirrussearch is pretty good, however I miss one big thing > from our previous moinmoin setup and thats a quick simple search and > display of wiki article titles. > > What I would like is a button which will take the string from the search > field in mediawiki, perform a title search to grab any article with that > string in the title and disaply all the articles , titles only, in > alphabetic order. > > Any suggestions if such a thing already exists or what my best avenue to > approach this would be given the various ways one can modify mediawiki ? > > appreciate any thoughts on the topic. > we have a fairly small private wiki so this kind of search works really > well, for myself at least. > > You'll want to use the "intitle:" operator in the search field. So if you search for "intitle:Oatmeal" it'll only return results with Oatmeal in the title :) If you're wanting just a list, no snippets or anything like on Special:Search, you could do this via the API. -Chad _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
