[OSM-talk] OSM Wiki Search does not work

[Tirkon]

Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Tirkon <tirkon33 at yahoo.de> wrote:
>
>> Hello, the OSM-Wiki Search does not work. E.g. a search (all options
>> activated) for "ostfriesland" does not find this page:
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Andre68
>> allthough the word "Ostfriesland" is present there.
>> "luftbilder" and "lauf" does not find:
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Luftbilder_aus_Lauf
>> and "boot" does not find:
>> >http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Boot_Düsseldorf_23.-31.1.2010<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Boot_D%C3%BCsseldorf_23.-31.1.2010>

>MediaWiki search is pretty weak in general. 
No problem at Wikipedia

>If this is a specific issue for
>those terms, consider making a page that links there directly.
The problem is, that I want to find these pages. I do not know them.
The one in the example I found by chance. In this case I want to find
users who have the word "ostfriesland" on their user page in order to
organise a local meeting in Ostfriesland, which is the name of a
german region: 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ostfriesland
People who live there, will identify with it and there is great
chance, that the word will occur on their userpage.

>Maybe the search index is out of date...
And what could be done to fix it?