https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23815
Summary: Wikipanion for iPad has a search engine problem
Product: Wikipedia Mobile
Version: .5
Platform: Other
OS/Version: other
Status: NEW
Severity: critical
Priority: Normal
Component: iphone
AssignedTo: hcat...@wikimedia.org
ReportedBy: jeffl...@sbcglobal.net
CC: tf...@wikimedia.org
Something is wrong with the search engine attached to Wikipanion for iPad. I
tried to find an article in Wikipanion for iPad about the NBC Pentagon
correspondent Miklaszewski. When I typed in his last name (because I couldn't
remember his first name) in the search slot and then pressed Search, a page
entitled Miklaszewski appeared for about a half-second and then disappeared.
Wikipanion then informed me that no such article existed. So I left Wikipanion
and then opened Safari for iPad and went to www.wikipedia.com and re-entered
Miklaszewski in the search slot. This time I was offered a list of potential
Miklaszewski's starting with "Jim Miklaszewski" which I selected and found what
I was looking for. For grins I went back to Wikipanion for iPad and entered
"Jim Miklaszewski" ... and the same article appeared this time formatted for
iPad. So what's up with this? The search engine in Wikipanion for iPad should
have given me the same disambiguation choices to select from based on the last
name that first time that I entered it. Remember the old cookie fortune: a
database that plays hard to get loses adherents ...
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