At Yext, we're committed to consistently maintaining and improving our internal documentation tools.
For years, our technical documentation was stored in our own markdown-based system. While this made our documentation relatively hard to edit, it allowed us to leverage the full power of our Yext Search technology to search it.
Recently, however, we decided to upgrade to a Mediawiki-powered wiki for our documentation. This shift made documentation much easier to create and edit, but we found that the built-in search based on pure text matching was inferior to what we're used to with Yext Search.
Now, by integrating Yext Search into Mediawiki — as shown below — we've found the best of both worlds. Here's how.