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I'm trying to figure out what the extension is (I'm assuming it's an extension) that auto populates the search bar when typing into the search text box.
thanks
jim
Hi Jim!
I don't know exactly what extension you mean but no worries, if it exists we'll find out and use it!
(Upload a picture of you please :)
Enric
I'm not sure if you can post images to this forum. I want the search bar on my wiki to look like this:
http://jimroma.com/p2pu/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search I think that is what you are looking for ?
Hi Jim,
Since version 1.13 you can have it by modifying your MediaWiki settings (it used to be a version before that, which now is obsolete): http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEnableMWSuggest
We will see and go through this type of details during the 3rd week. Feel free to test and investigate on your own, of course, but before extensions and configuring I think it's best if we deal with some basics about wikis and the MediaWiki tool itself...
Enric
That is the functionality I want. When a user starts to type in the search text field it starts to auto complete. Is there an extension that creates that functionality? I also want to have the search bar on the upper right side of the page like on the wikipedia site. This is my wiki: http://jimroma.com/w/. Thanks for your help, I'm still a little new to wikis.
Enric
That did the trick. Sorry, didn't mean to get ahead of my self.
To enable this I added the following line to LocalSettings.php:
$wgEnableMWSuggest = true;
Great, no problem Jim! We need explorers in the course, so you can help others later on or tell us what you found :)