Fix the "Find a language" search box formerly on www.wikipedia.org so it can be included again on the page (or wherever else that functionality is useful).
The search box was disabled in T126409, citing an API bug. (Filing as a separate bug since the former feature was simplified to 'remove the buggy box'; it seemed like the UI element would have been useful if it could be fixed.)
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T130077 Fix & restore the "Find a language" search box on www.wikipedia.org portal - API bug? | |||
| Resolved | BUG REPORT | jhsoby | T162518 Special:SearchWiki is broken for existing Wikipedias |
For the record, it used the function of https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SearchWiki.
It doesn't seem to work for existing wikis; only shows a blank page. Wp/<lang>&goto=mainpage also seems to be broken (I guess it's related).
It's failing for Wikipedias only, not other projects. $wmincProjectDatabases['p'] is set to wikiand this is used to retrieve the value of wgServer through wgConf. See WikimediaIncubator::getSubdomain() and WikimediaIncubator::getConf(). Recently wmf-config changed wiki to wikipediaso it's now failing since wiki key is not set in wgServer configuration and is falling back to some weird default. L1340. I guess we need to do some major refactoring to fix this in a non-hackish way?
@Ebe123 I have created a pull request. I have added the search box. Please let me know, if its working or not.
@Helix17: Thanks a lot! Please see and follow https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Commit_message_guidelines and fix the commit message (tense, link to Phab ID). (PS: No need to ping folks for no good reason.)
Change 675449 had a related patch set uploaded (by Priyaraj17; author: Priyaraj17):
[wikimedia/portals@master] Find a language search-box
@Helix17: Thanks a lot! (PS: You may avoid assuming people's gender identity, maybe I am not a "sir".)
Ohh, I am so sorry, I just have a habit of calling the people who are senior to me as sir or ma'am. It won't happen again.
Change 676547 had a related patch set uploaded (by Priyaraj17; author: Priyaraj17):
[wikimedia/portals@master] Find a language search-box
Change 675449 abandoned by Priyaraj17:
[wikimedia/portals@master] Find a language search-box
Reason:
Hey, I had made a mistake earlier and I have corrected it, I went through the codebase and realized this. Here is the link to the pull request.
Change 794768 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jon Harald Søby; author: Jon Harald Søby):
[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaIncubator@master] [WIP] Refactor and consolidate settings
Change 794768 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaIncubator@master] Refactor and consolidate config
The underlying error in the Wikimedia Incubator's Special:SearchWiki has been fixed now; confirmed on Incubator Beta, will be deployed to the live wiki next week. So if you, @Helix17, or anyone else wants to work on reinstating this on the wikipedia.org portal, that should be easier now.
@Helix17: Per emails from Sep18 and Oct20 and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Assignee_cleanup , I am resetting the assignee of this task because there has not been progress lately (please correct me if I am wrong!). Resetting the assignee avoids the impression that somebody is already working on this task. It also allows others to potentially work towards fixing this task. Please claim this task again when you plan to work on it (via Add Action... → Assign / Claim in the dropdown menu) - it would be welcome. Thanks for your understanding!