https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20237
Summary: mwsuggest.js: search anywhere in the article name
Product: MediaWiki
Version: 1.13.4
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Search
AssignedTo: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
ReportedBy: mr.pri...@gmx.de
Please provide a $wg... configuration setting or a user preference to give
the AJAX autosuggest feature the ability to search not only in the beginning,
but anywhere in the article name.
reason 1:
example article: Pixar's Disney Toy Story
search for: Disney
current result: no result
You currently only would get results with typing: Pi...
reason 2: This would also important when searching beyond namespaces...
example: The category "Disney" exists but no article "Disney"
search for: Disney
current result: nothing
You only would get results with typing: Category:D...
reason 3: The autosuggest feature currently does not replace
the[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Search_Suggest Extension:Search
Suggest] for this functionality like stated on the page of this extension. But
this extension was unfortunatly only able to search in articles without
namespace preposition. Configuration setting here was: $location = 1; //set to
1 to search anywhere in the article name, set to 0 to search only at the
begining
reason 4: requested by another user at
[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual_talk:$wgEnableMWSuggest#Extend_the_search]
It can not be a good solution to set redirects for alternative or incomplete
terms, especially not when #16145 (mwsuggest.js should not return redirects)
get into the core.
Thank you.
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