Thread:Monchoman45/@comment-5973717-20140217195800/@comment-24376429-20140217220949

Deadcoder wrote: Hi, some of the users on my wiki, codelyoko.wikia.com aren't really satisfied with the search feature on our wiki. The main issue is that it only searches on our wiki, and doesn't search our sibling wikis in other languages. Futhermore, image searching is very hard to do well.

What I would like to ask is, would it violate Wikia's Terms of Use if we replace the search feature on our wiki with a custom in-house search feature? Short answer: Yes, it would be a violation of the Terms of Use to replace any part of the wiki UI site wide.

Long answer: The search extension can only search that one wiki due to the databases being separate for each wiki. In order to search in all languages you would need a search extension that can query multiple databases in multiple languages. This would not be possible in JavaScript even with XHR due to Wikia cross domain policy.