Serbian Wikipedia search offers to create existing articles
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	Nikola_Smolenski
	Jun 28 2016, 3:49 PM

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Serbian Wikipedia search offers to create existing articles, if search term alphabet is different than the existing article title alphabet. Example:

Search for "beograd": https://sr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%BE:%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B6%D0%B8&profile=default&fulltext=Search&search=beograd&searchToken=ak6qs6fmp3ajcpapbgqfdqii&uselang=en
- Expected: nothing, since there is the article https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beograd
- Observed: the search results page offers 'Create the page "Beograd" on this wiki!'

The search should be aware of the converttitles feature and not offer to create an article if an article already exists and could be reached through converttitles. This is probably applicable to all the wikipedias that are using multiple scripts (f.e. Chinese).

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Mentioned Here: T138857: Serbian language search differentiates between Cyrillic and Latin alphabets
T138858: Serbian language search does not allows for use of bald Latin alphabet

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Nikola_Smolenski created this task.Jun 28 2016, 3:49 PM

Restricted Application added subscribers: Zppix, Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptJun 28 2016, 3:49 PM

Krenair added a project: MediaWiki-Search.Jun 28 2016, 3:58 PM

Restricted Application added projects: Discovery-ARCHIVED, Discovery-Search. · View Herald TranscriptJun 28 2016, 3:58 PM

Krenair added a project: MediaWiki-Internationalization.Jun 28 2016, 4:02 PM

Wikimedia sites do not use MediaWiki's default search backend (MediaWiki-Search), hence setting CirrusSearch.

I believe this problem is independent of the search backend, so I returned it, hope that's OK.

We'll take a look at this with T138858 and T138857

Liuxinyu970226 added a project: Serbian-Sites.Jan 2 2019, 3:13 PM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: • Petar.petkovic. · View Herald TranscriptJan 2 2019, 3:13 PM

Happening too with Advanced-Search https://sr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=beograd&title=Посебно%3AПретражи&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&advancedSearch-current=%7B"namespaces"%3A%5B0%5D%7D&ns0=1&uselang=en

Restricted Application added a project: TCB-Team (now WMDE-TechWish). · View Herald TranscriptJan 3 2019, 3:29 PM

Nothing to fix in that frontend

TJones moved this task from This Quarter to Language Stuff on the Discovery-Search board.Jan 29 2019, 7:05 PM

TJones closed this task as a duplicate of T260957: Show correct create page/page exists message on wikis with multiple writing systems.Aug 27 2020, 8:09 PM

Aca moved this task from Backlog to Closed on the Serbian-Sites board.Aug 3 2021, 10:28 AM

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