Update search documentation to reflect how ? is treated
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	• ksmith
	Jul 6 2016, 9:35 PM

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We really should mention that ? is a wildcard substitute for any character in one or more of the following pages:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Searching

The CirrusSearch help page should probably have a link to the Searching page, right near the top.

Also, these pages don't appear to discuss how ? works, and probably should:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Advanced_search

It looks like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching/Draft#Fuzzy_search.2C_wildcards.2C_and_stemming already covers ? pretty well.

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Resolved		CKoerner_WMF	T141156 Update CirrusSearch documentation
		Resolved		TJones	T139528 Update search documentation to reflect how ? is treated

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• ksmith created this task.Jul 6 2016, 9:35 PM

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Danny_B added projects: Documentation, MediaWiki-Documentation.Jul 6 2016, 10:42 PM

debt triaged this task as Medium priority.Jul 20 2016, 4:09 PM

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CKoerner_WMF mentioned this in T141156: Update CirrusSearch documentation.Jul 22 2016, 9:36 PM

Nemo_bis added a parent task: T141156: Update CirrusSearch documentation.Aug 8 2016, 2:21 PM

Hi,

Just FYI, @TJones updated these two pages last week:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching
and
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch

I've updated the docs at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Advanced_search, too.

The documentation at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Searching is not for CirrusSearch, and so does not need updating.

I checked and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching/Draft#Fuzzy_search.2C_wildcards.2C_and_stemming is a little out of date—in addition to not having \? for ?, it has incorrect info on * (which cannot appear at the beginning of a word—though it must have been allowed at some point, because it was documented incorrectly on a couple of the other pages, too. Unless @Cpiral asks for assistance—which I'd be happy to provide—I'd leave the Draft alone.

I think we might be done.

debt assigned this task to TJones.Aug 8 2016, 7:19 PM

debt edited projects, added Discovery-Search (Current work); removed Discovery-Search.

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TJones moved this task from not in use - please delete to Needs review on the Discovery-Search (Current work) board.Aug 11 2016, 3:12 PM