When we make a search at Txikipedia (https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Txikipedia:Azala) we are pointed to a search page with all the possible results, instead of behaving like the "normal" search box, which points directly to the wanted article.
Having a direct search would improve the UX for children, who would have difficulties to understand what they are seeing.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T223228 The Great Basque Redesign | |||
| Open | None | T223537 Make Txikipedia search box point directly to the article if it exists |
There are basically two problems here to be solved:
Also this is important for T209327, as they want to search for help pages directly, without going to a page where everything is listed.
We'd need to think about how to implement this without causing too much of a stress on the system.
I looked into it but the current "go" implementation makes this hard. Essentially with the current implementation we would have to issue hundreds of sequential queries (particularly in languages like zh that have 30 variants) to decide if we should send a user to a particular page, or if they should go to the search results. Essentially the entire feature needs to be reworked to do this in a way that doesn't slow down a thousand request per second.
Actually this is a very strange behaviour, because we have entered the prefix. Let's think in the people who is searching something in the help pages and gets a really weird search results page.
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