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OTRS - https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom;TicketID=10114652

A user is reporting that search terms like "hottest place" or "coldest place" are no longer working on German Wikipedia. I tried on English Wikipedia on the android app and desktop, in both cases those terms produced results. I tried on German Wikipedia on the android app and desktop, no search results were presented.

Steps:

  1. Launch German Wikipedia
  2. Search for coldest place (kältester Ort)

Expected Result:
Search results are displayed

Event Timeline

Search terms in German Wikipedia seem to work in my area, though I don't live in Germany.

@ABorbaWMF What is the German term for "hottest place"?

What is the German term for "hottest place"?

Probably "wärmster Ort" or "heißester Ort"

I tried on German Wikipedia on the android app and desktop, no search results were presented.

Cannot reproduce. I get search results displayed:

Screenshot from 2017-07-15 16-45-52.png (488×680 px, 129 KB)

(If those are the expected search results is a different question though.)

Or maybe I'm unsure. If quotation marks are used, exact matches come up.

I may have misunderstood the original OTRS ticket, I used google translate. However, I think the user is looking for more useful results (on desktop for example). On mobile, it is just reporting 'no results'.

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Screenshot_20170717-111337.png (1×1 px, 83 KB)

Here is the original comment from the ticket and the translation:
Ich verwende ein Sony Xperia x compact mit neuester Software und Android Version. Auf die Suchfragen kältester Ort und heißester Ort erhalte ich jetzt immer nur die Antwort keine Ergebnisse gefunden. Vor einiger Zeit wurden noch Ergebnisse angezeigt. Das trifft auch auf andere Suchfragen zu. Die meisten Suchfragen funktionieren aber einwandfrei. Hat sich da bei Wikipedia etwas geändert, oder stimmt möglicherweise mit meinem Smartphone etwas nicht?
Für eine Antwort bin ich dankbar.

I use a Sony Xperia x compact with latest software and Android version. On the search questions coldest place and hottest place I get now only the answer no results found. Some time ago results were displayed. This also applies to other search queries. Most search queries work perfectly. Has something changed with Wikipedia, or is something wrong with my smartphone?
I am grateful for an answer.

Hmm... @ABorbaWMF I couldn't understand what app or website the user used. Did that user mean Wikipedia's search engine or Google's search engine? The screenshots that the user uploaded gave no indication whatsoever belonging to Wikipedia, either German or English. I don't think Wikipedia has those "no results" interfaces, does it?

Oh... okay then.

The screenshots are from me. I used our latest android app. The OTRS ticket was tagged as an android app issue.

debt subscribed.

Moving this over to Android bugs; let us know if there is anything we can do to help.