Whitespaces nullifies filter ability using accout names
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	EChukwukere-WMF
	Tue, Feb 3, 4:57 AM

Description

Steps to replicate the issue:

Navigate to Suggested Investigations and click the filter icon
Select the Account textbox, hit tab to add a space and then enter account name : "CheckUser"

What happens?:

See that no dropdown options are displayed

What should have happened instead?:

Drop down options should be displayed

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

Details

Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	ApiQueryAllUsers: Ignore leading whitespaces on username filter	mediawiki/core	master	+32 -6
	SuggestedInvestigations: Ignore leading whitespaces on username filter	mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser	master	+31 -0

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Mentioned In: T414195: Add ability to filter by account name into the filter dialog

Event Timeline

EChukwukere-WMF created this task.Tue, Feb 3, 4:57 AM

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EChukwukere-WMF assigned this task to Dreamy_Jazz.Tue, Feb 3, 4:57 AM

EChukwukere-WMF added a project: CheckUser-SuggestedInvestigations.

EChukwukere-WMF mentioned this in T414195: Add ability to filter by account name into the filter dialog.

kostajh moved this task from Backlog to Ready on the Product Safety and Integrity (Sprint Daffodil (Jan 19 - Feb 6)) board.Tue, Feb 3, 12:54 PM

hector.arroyo changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Tue, Feb 3, 3:50 PM

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hector.arroyo moved this task from Ready to In progress on the Product Safety and Integrity (Sprint Daffodil (Jan 19 - Feb 6)) board.

Change #1236337 had a related patch set uploaded (by Harroyo-wmf; author: Harroyo-wmf):

[mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser@master] SuggestedInvestigations: Ignore leading whitespaces on username filter

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1236337

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Tue, Feb 3, 5:00 PM

hector.arroyo moved this task from In progress to Needs review on the Product Safety and Integrity (Sprint Daffodil (Jan 19 - Feb 6)) board.Tue, Feb 3, 5:04 PM

hector.arroyo moved this task from Backlog to In Progress on the CheckUser-SuggestedInvestigations board.Tue, Feb 3, 5:07 PM

Change #1237159 had a related patch set uploaded (by Harroyo-wmf; author: Harroyo-wmf):

[mediawiki/core@master] ApiQueryAllUsers: Ignore leading whitespaces on username filter

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1237159

Change #1237159 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] ApiQueryAllUsers: Ignore leading whitespaces on username filter

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1237159

Change #1236337 abandoned by Harroyo-wmf:

[mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser@master] SuggestedInvestigations: Ignore leading whitespaces on username filter

Reason:

Solved via a backend change instead: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/1237159

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1236337

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.15; 2026-02-10).Thu, Feb 5, 3:01 PM

An initial fix in CheckUser (#1236337) to trim the leading whitespaces in the frontend has been discarded, and a wider fix to make user search requests to remove leading whitespaces in the backend has been merged to core instead (#1237159).

This can go to QA now.

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Thu, Feb 5, 3:31 PM

Test status: QA PASS