Special:ItemDisambiguation should list items with the same label, disregarding case and other minor differences (at least optionally).
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
Whiteboard: u=dev c=backend p=0
See Also:
T45962: Special:ItemDisambiguation should include aliases in search, not just labels.
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Make Special:ItemDisambiguation match aliases. | mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase | master | +165 -66 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T46529 Wikidata search problems (tracking) | |||
| Resolved | None | T59658 Improve Special:ItemDisambiguation (tracking) | |||
| Open | None | T96040 Wikibase special pages (tracking) | |||
| Resolved | Addshore | T44686 Special:ItemDisambiguation should support case-insensitive matches. |
This can and should be achieved by querying the wb_terms table via the
TermsCache interface. That would also fix bug 43962.
Agreed. The default should be case-insensitive to correspond with the new default on the item suggester. This is important, because a common way to find items without descriptions is to use the suggester, then search when you see descriptions are missing.
It could be useful to have a checkbox to change this when disambiguating though.
This would now be super easy, infact it is probably 1 line of code (an option) and then tests
Change 221583 had a related patch set uploaded (by Addshore):
Make Special:ItemDisambiguation match aliases.