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Special:LinkSearch should support magic links
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching#Special_searches

It would be awesome if Special:LinkSearch, which searches through all external links, could also support ISBN, PMID, and RFC links, which are referred to as "magic links".

I see this as being as simple as replicating the external link search structure in a second, parallel Special:MagicSearch page, possibly with subpages, which doesn't seem too terribly difficult. Doing it "right" will probably mean building some nice convenience functions and making the special pages a lot shorter.

Let me know if I can help at all :)

(also, maybe this will get fixed in CirrusSearch? I don't know)

Version: 1.22.0
Severity: enhancement

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StatusSubtypeAssignedTask
 OpenNoneT31473 Magic Linking (tracking)
 DeclinedNoneT55348 Special:LinkSearch should support magic links

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 1:50 AM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Special-pages.
• bzimport set Reference to bz53348.
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MarkTraceur created this task.Aug 26 2013, 3:07 PM
MarkTraceur added a comment.Aug 26 2013, 3:20 PM
  • Bug 49537 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
• Manybubbles added a comment.Aug 26 2013, 3:29 PM

It looks like Special:LinkSearch doesn't use the SearchEngine infrastructure so it isn't something that CirrusSearch currently has in it's sights.

It'd be convenient if Special:LinkSearch supported the magic links directly but you can get at the links like this:

ISBN - Special:BookSources
PMID - Special:LinkSearch/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/<the id>
RFC - Special:LinkSearch/tools.ietf.org/html/rfc<the id>

I know that isn't really a solution to the bug. It might be helpful for someone wanting to do such a search in the future though.

Betacommand added a comment.Aug 26 2013, 3:47 PM

Special:BookSources is useless for what Bug 49537 was opened for. BookSources just provides links to third party resources. But gives zero information about where the isbn is actually being used

• Manybubbles added a comment.Aug 26 2013, 3:51 PM

(In reply to comment #3)

Special:BookSources is useless for what Bug 49537 was opened for. BookSources
just provides links to third party resources. But gives zero information
about
where the isbn is actually being used

Sorry, you are right. I don't have a solution for ISBNs then.

• demon added a comment.Oct 23 2013, 6:12 PM

This isn't a MWSearch bug, moving to core.

• Reguyla moved this task from To triage to Special:LinkSearch on the MediaWiki-Special-pages board.May 26 2015, 2:08 AM
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Ricordisamoa mentioned this in T20813: What links here on Special:Booksources.Sep 23 2015, 6:04 AM
• MZMcBride subscribed.Dec 28 2016, 3:03 AM

We now have tracking categories for magic links (e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pages_using_RFC_magic_links), with the intention of eventually removing magic link functionality from MediaWiki core. Consequently, I think this task should be closed.

Izno closed this task as Declined.Jan 12 2017, 9:19 PM
Izno subscribed.

Per MZMB.

Izno added a parent task: T31473: Magic Linking (tracking).Jan 12 2017, 9:20 PM
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