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why is it "the load" which is the problem and not the stupid foundation full of losers who are so untrusted they don't get donations to afford enough hardware? no excuses
(some reasons why Wikipedia in itself does not offer full-text searching) |
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Finally, Wikipedia has no full text search facility, due to deficiencies of the [[mediawiki]] software. | Finally, Wikipedia has no full text search facility, due to deficiencies of the [[mediawiki]] software. | ||
:You can do full text searches using '''Google''' or '''Yahoo'''. Full text searching from the [[MySQL]] database became possible starting from version 4.0, which is now in use at [[Wikipedia]], but the lack of this feature is surely related to the heavy load on the servers. | :You can do full text searches using '''Google''' or '''Yahoo'''. Full text searching from the [[MySQL]] database became possible starting from version 4.0, which is now in use at [[Wikipedia]], but the lack of this feature is surely related to the heavy load on the servers - the [[Wikimedia]] foundation not having sufficient trust or resources to actually buy sufficient hardware. | ||
===Usefulness:=== | ===Usefulness:=== | ||