@Cparle - the test cases for review are in Search test cases comparison - Commons search vs MediaSearch - any feedback is appreciated.

In the google doc I highlighted the cases where Special:MediaSearch functionality differs from
Special:Search; they probably need some evaluation whether they are applicable to MediaSearch.

@Etonkovidova - I have added a few comments to that ... also:

T257295 (probably live next week) may solve lines 17, 25, 32, 47 and 48
T251940 (merged, should be live this week) may solve line 16
T252692 covers line 27 and line 40-43

Testing note:

• Special:MediaSearch - testing for Search result relevance - irises (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaSearch?type=bitmap&q=irises) will return everything with iris in a file name or in caption (even 'iris' being part of a word, as in 'Paris').

e.g.

Captions, wikitext & filenames will indeed all be included when searching.
However, "paris" should not be matched when searching for "iris" or "irises". Do you have an example of where that was the case?
Most of the not too obvious matches I could find for "iris" were because the wikitext contained the photographer's name, "iris".

Added one more test case to the spreadsheet

• long queries
  • Special:MediaSearch** - long queries will never finish searching (the page searching indicator keeps going) although there is an error is identified:

"error":{"code":"cirrussearch-query-too-long","info":"Search request is longer than the maximum allowed length. (462 > 300)"

Special:Search - long queries would take quite a short time to display "There were no results matching the query."

In T258453#6337302, @matthiasmullie wrote:

Captions, wikitext & filenames will indeed all be included when searching.
However, "paris" should not be matched when searching for "iris" or "irises". Do you have an example of where that was the case?
Most of the not too obvious matches I could find for "iris" were because the wikitext contained the photographer's name, "iris".

Hmm... re-tested it - and iris won't return any files with Paris. And, overall, I could not find any cases of partial matches.

Hi @Etonkovidova - now that we have the list of test cases, can we close this task?