Re: [Wikitech-l] Maximum search query length coming soon

A follow-up patch which increases the limit to 2,500 was merged; this means the character limit will be 2,500 characters instead of 300 characters when it goes into production next week. I expect that this limit will be reset back to 300 within a few wee

Re: [Wikitech-l] Maximum search query length coming soon

The patch implementing this functionality was just merged. We therefore expect that this will therefore go out to production next week with the normal MediaWiki deployment train. Dan On 10 August 2015 at 14:36, Dan Garry wrote: > Hello! > > The Searc

[Wikitech-l] Maximum search query length coming soon

Hello! The Search Team in the Discovery Department is implementing a maximum search query length . There are two main reasons to do this: 1. Extremely long queries are almost always gibberish from things like malfunctioning scrapers. These queries