Trevor, I'm putting this on your plate as part of the go/search behavior change for redesigned search box.

For background -- if the search term is recognized as an IP address and no article with that name exists, on 'go' search we jump to Special:Contributions on the address:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=155.198.79.45
->
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/155.198.79.45

If the contribs link is available in the dropdown but doesn't force you to go there, that's probably fine for our needs.

olivier.beaton wrote:

Configuration Option

I made a patch to add configuration option $wgEnableSearchIPContributors for LocalSettings.php

This is my very first core change and I only started writting extensions on Sept 17th, so please review.

I debated if this should be a user option under search, but decided non-admins would really wonder wth it is. Feel free to disagree and ask me to add that too.

I've been frustrated by the lack of this feature for 2+ years, my corporate wiki contains networking ips of hosts and switches (no it's not a cmdb) and I and the other admins are constantly trying to search by ip. I kept searching for an extension or configuration setting but always came up empty.

Finally today after coding a few extensions I looked into it and I see I might be able to use the hook SearchGetNearMatch to make this an extension, but I'm not certain.

That's when I thought this should really be a config setting and would be a good exercise for my first attempt at a patch.

So here it is! I used -p1 -i to apply it.

Attached:

Why do we have this behavior at all anyway? I always hated that.

olivier.beaton wrote:

Could it be for lazy admins who want to check if an unlogged in vandal also has an account?

sumanah wrote:

Added the "patch" and "need-review" keywords; Mark hopes to get someone to review the patch soon.

(In reply to comment #2)

Created attachment 9094 [details]
Configuration Option

Comments on the patch:

• Please choose a clearer name for the $wg var if you can, the current name is not very descriptive
• Don't use two nested if statements, but use if ( $wgFoo && ... && ... )
• Observe whitespace conventions for your if statements

Attached:

Committed slightly modified patch in r103019 after IRC conversation.

olivier.beaton wrote:

Thanks Roan!