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Search: mishanding? of quote character (double-quotation mark)
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Description

Author: uqcqnzadyc

Description:
To reproduce this 'bug':

existing article on wiki)

  • press enter

Expected behaviour:

Observed Behaviour:

(Note that searching on:

foo

[i.e. without the double-quotation marks] gives the 'correct', expected behaviour)


Thoughts:

  • it seems that double-quoatation marks are being mishandled in search?
  • maybe a bug, maybe not a bug .... but failing to locate "foo" is not what

I would consider 'expected benaviour'

  • good or bad google has defined what is search, and the syntax as well
  • suggest that google's method of handling of double-quotation marks be

considered and adopted
...

  • unless it's possible that "foo" and foo might be different articles? I'm not familiar with the rules of

nomenclature for wiki article names.

(Thanks for wiki folks! - If needed I can be emailed at freeman_once att reazon
dott dyndnz dott org ... use letter 'esss' instead of letter 'zeee')


Version: unspecified
Severity: minor
OS: Windows XP
Platform: PC
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Details

Reference
bz1853

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Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 8:19 PM
bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Search.
bzimport set Reference to bz1853.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

I'd been intending to add this after some earlier search-related feedback but forgot
to check it in yet. Fixed now in CVS HEAD and REL1_4 and live on Wikimedia sites.

It is in fact possible for "foo" and Foo to be different pages. :) I've set it to try
trimming the quotes on a double-quoted term if the first set of checks don't find a
match. This seems to work reasonably well.

epriestley added a commit: Unknown Object (Diffusion Commit).Mar 4 2015, 8:23 AM