Statistic shows that people sometimes use query syntax on Wikidata, such as:
etc. New search does not support this (at least yet), and these are pretty rare (less than 1% of queries) but they do exist. So we may want to fall back to old search when we detect such request - despite old search being generally bad, it may return at least something for these queries.
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| Redirect queries with advanced syntax to the old search | mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase | master | +251 -10 |
Change 395894 had a related patch set uploaded (by Smalyshev; owner: Smalyshev):
[mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase@master] Redirect queries with advanced syntax to the old search
@dcausse I am not sure here about something: if we use old type query for syntax query, like insource:foo, should we also use scoring provided by that query, or should we use scoring profile that we use for other wikidata queries? Some syntaxes may change scoring (and actually depend on it), many may leave it alone - not sure what the best way here.
Change 395894 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase@master] Redirect queries with advanced syntax to the old search