Extension:TitleKey

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TitleKey Release status: stable
Implementation	Search
Description	Provides a case-insensitive page title prefix search
Author(s)	Brion Vibber (Brion VIBBERtalk)
Latest version	continuous updates
MediaWiki	1.25+
Database changes	Yes
Tables	titlekey
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	Download extension Git [?]: Download Git master browse repository (GitHub) commit history repository contributors (GitHub) code review README
Hooks used LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates PageDeleteComplete PageMoveCompleting PageSaveComplete PageUndeleteComplete
Quarterly downloads	62 (Ranked 70th)
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The TitleKey extension provides a case-insensitive page title prefix search. It uses a separate table for the keys, so it can be deployed without an expensive rebuild of core tables, and uninstalled later in preference for a different search extension such as CirrusSearch .

For the average site administrator, the benefit of this extension is that it allows search suggestions (e.g. from Opensearch API) to be case-insensitive.

This extension provides no benefit if you are using CirrusSearch .

Installation

• Download and move the extracted TitleKey folder to your extensions/ directory.
  Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/TitleKey
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'TitleKey' );
  

• Run the update script which will automatically create the necessary database tables that this extension needs.
• Run the "rebuildTitleKeys.php" script (this requires command-line access):

MW_INSTALL_PATH=/path/to/mediawiki php extensions/TitleKey/maintenance/rebuildTitleKeys.php

•  Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Known problems

• It breaks VisualEditor autocompletion for templates (see topic).
• It breaks any extension that relies on Prefixsearch which also includes TemplateWizard .
• With MediaWiki 1.35 or earlier it breaks search suggestions for pages that are not in the main namespace. (The Gerrit patch fixing this issue has been released as part of MediaWiki 1.36: Gerrit change 641277.)