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Search results on mobile should exclude pages where the search terms are not rendered on mobile
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Description

List of steps to reproduce (step by step, including full links if applicable):

What happens?:

  • You see about 300 articles in the search results.
  • Click on any of the articles in mobile, and observe that the text "Azerbaijan: MTN (until 2015)" does not appear in the rendered article or in its source text.
  • Switch to desktop view of any of the articles, and you can see that text inside one of the navboxes.

What should have happened instead?:

  • In the mobile view, navboxes are not displayed, so search results on mobile should exclude text that appears in navboxes.

Software version (if not a Wikimedia wiki), browser information, screenshots, other information, etc:
Mobile version of English Wikipedia

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Jonesey95 created this task.May 26 2021, 5:05 AM
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Jdlrobson subscribed.Jun 2 2021, 8:15 PM

I think this lacks a practical technical solution given the way MobileFrontend applies its transformations on top of the output of the parser.

Eventually, we'd like to not scrub content such as navboxes and I think that's a better use of time, rather than adding to the technical debt by adding special handling in search.

Perhaps there's an argument here that content such as navboxes should be ignored in search indexing, potentially by allowing editors to mark up content that is not primary content. If not, I think this should be declined or at least merged into T124168

Jdlrobson moved this task from Needs triage to Triaged on the Mobile board.Jun 2 2021, 8:15 PM
Gehel closed this task as a duplicate of T124168: Show Navbox templates in mobile skins.Jun 7 2021, 3:27 PM
Nardog reopened this task as Open.Jun 7 2021, 4:29 PM

If you're declining it then decline it, but it clearly is not a duplicate.

Aklapper added a comment.Jun 7 2021, 4:38 PM

@Nardog: Could you elaborate why you think that this is not a duplicate?

Jonesey95 added a comment.Jun 7 2021, 5:12 PM

If the navboxes are displayed in the mobile skin, then this separate bug can be marked as fixed by the resolution of T124168. While that feature request remains open, or if it is marked as declined/won't fix, this bug will need to stay open.

MPhamWMF moved this task from needs triage to Tests & Analysis on the Discovery-Search board.Jun 9 2021, 3:12 PM
MPhamWMF moved this task from Tests & Analysis to search-icebox on the Discovery-Search board.
Xeriphas1994 subscribed.Feb 8 2022, 8:15 PM
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