Seamless integration in MediaWiki (replaces built-in search; can be disabled by individual users via MediaWiki preferences)
Social search (Describe and discuss queries, (Social ranking))
Searches all namespaces
Need guidance
Popups for "Red links" provide meta-information on need
Statistics of unsatisfied queries
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Convenience features
Supports different languages (en and de supplied by default, further languages can easily be supported)
Native PHP extension (in WoogleNative mode)
Limitations
Accesses all pages in all namespaces - currently no configuration possible (but can be relatively easy changed in the code)
Does not respect any read restrictions/access rights on MediaWiki content (certain access control is possible in WoogleRemote using an Integrated search backend)
Performance
WoogleRemote
Integrated Search is the core determinant for indexing and query performance - it can typically handle large amounts of data
Communication and even network latency between the PHP/MediaWiki frontend and the Java/TeamWeaverIS backend is not an issue to our experience
WoogleNative
On state-of-the-art hardware, we were able to work with a 50,000 pages subset of Wikipedia, serving queries well below one second
However, we did not yet test this scale with massive requests
We recommend to restrict search-term autocomplete to title matches only for Wikis larger than 10,000 pages for performance reasons