https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21555
Summary: search on keyword - rather than requiring exact title
including puntuation
Product: Wikimedia
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Site requests
AssignedTo: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
ReportedBy: wiki0...@gmail.com
It is now necessary to have to enter the '''''exact title''''' of an article -
exact ''including punctuation'' - in order to find an article in any of the
logs. This search would be much more user friendly and would be more like what
most people are used to if the LOGs search would search for a key word instead
of requiring an exact title. This is especially a problem for the deletion
logs, as a lot of people looking at the deletion logs are new to wikipedia and
usually trying to find out why their article got deleted. You can see many
people at the help des asking "what happened to my article" because they can't
find it in the deletion log. I couldn't find a title because I searched for
"Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus"
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&user=&page=Searching+for+the+Wrong+Eyed+Jesus]
instead of "Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus"
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&user=&page=Searching+for+the+Wrong-Eyed+Jesus].
Ack!
I asked rainman about this, and he said, "This is because the logs search is
separate from fulltext search and is using the default mysql engine. The
problem you describe could in principle be solved by adding a stripped version
of the article title and then search that via mysql." So, I thought it might
help if a solution was presented along with the problem.
Thanks.
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