• Bug 18212 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

abutko wrote:

please, add checkbox to preferences, which will not show redirects in search
form suggest

ahmad.m.sherif wrote:

proposed patch

This patch may help, but it needs to be reviewed by anyone from API assignees (perhaps Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw@home.nl>).

Attached:

I disagree with this bug. There are sometimes redirects which are not simply stylistic differences. For instance, on the French Wikipedia, [[:fr:Adam RA-17]] (a small airplane without its own article) redirects to [[:fr:Roger Adam]] (its constructor). If there are no more redirects in the search box, you don't know that the article Adam RA-17 exists when you search in the search box.

I purpose to either add a checkbox in the preferences (like Andrew Butko said) either mark the redirects in the search box (e.g. in italic):
''Adam RA-17''
Adam Raga
''Adam raga''

Redirects are indeed useful, especially for search suggestions.

If third party gadgets want a way to query the opensearch-api without redirects (ie. "Add boolean option to opensearch api to include/filter redirects"), then please open a seperate ticket for that.