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Canonicalized pagenames in search get different suggestions
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

  • Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
  • Enter "Wikipedia:Village pump" in the search bar, look at the suggestions
  • Enter "Wikipedia: Village pump" in the search bar, look at the suggestions

What happens?:

Wikipedia:Village pump:

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Wikipedia: Village pump:

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What should have happened instead?:

Both should have looked approximately like

CleanShot 2026-07-20 at 15.28.58@2x.png (894×1,374 px, 239 KB)

Event Timeline

Change #1312584 had a related patch set uploaded (by DLynch; author: DLynch):

[mediawiki/core@master] SearchEngine: use the same normalization as Title does for namespaces

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1312584

Change #1312584 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] SearchEngine: use the same normalization as Title does for namespaces

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1312584

matmarex assigned this task to DLynch.