Author: matthew.britton
Description:
It would be useful to be able to restrict a search by page size, and/or search
for all pages between a certain minimum and maximum size. The page size is shown
in the search results already, so it is presumably accessible by the search engine.
Searching by number of words (also shown in the results) would be nice too; this
is less useful for maintenance purposes, but more intuitive for readers.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
matthew.britton wrote:
I note with interest that this functionality has been added to (of all things) the list of protected pages - which suggests at least that it is possible, which is nice. There are certainly many more situations than that where a search by page size would be useful.
Mass close WONTFIX open Lucene Search issues because extension Lucene Search was removed, and replaced by MWSearch. Please set to REOPENED if behaviour still exists with a another component, and update the domain.
Mass REOPEN after discussion with Robert. Domain: Wikimedia/lucene-search-2. Assigned to maintainer.
This won't be done in MWSearch as it has reached its end of life and will not be improved further.
However, this is a good feature suggestion so repurposing to a Cirrus bug.
We might want to think about faceting with this as well. Faceting on article size could be neat.
As a workaround you may use (for example) insource:/.{3000}/ to find pages with no less than 3000 characters.
insource:/.{3000}/ is a very expensive query. Don't use it without including a regular keyword of some sort to limit the number of articles to scan with the regex.
While it'd be possible to implement this sorting now, it'd be helpful to better understand the interest and use cases for this functionality before adding and maintaining more features on our search results page. We'll close this ticket for now as it is 14 years old, but if there is still interest in this functionality, please open a new ticket for this feature request.