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Title autocompletion should also match display title and show it
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Description

As a reader of a multilingual wiki looking for a page in my language, whose title has been translated via the Translate extension, I want to type in the search bar in my language and be autocompleted in my language, till I reach the page whose display title is what I'm looking for.

Example: page title Help:Navigation/it, display title Aiuto:Navigazione.
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Navigation/it&action=info
I type Aiuto:N, I want to see Aiuto:Navigazione in autocompletion and be brought to the actual page.


Problem reported by an institutional user of MediaWiki:

trying to create a multilingual
mediawiki for the * Archive at the University of *.
We're trying to constitute a international collaboration network for this
big *. [...]
also entries already
translated are displayed in the search bar as the original word with
/languagecode - how can that be changed.


Note, I don't give for granted that users/wikis actually want to translate page titles (and especially namespace names within them), because often they don't; but when they do it makes sense to actually use those translations.

I hope that this will be easier than categories, because it doesn't involve parsing.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=29975&hide_resolved=1


Version: master
Severity: enhancement

Details

Reference
bz64703

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 3:22 AM
bzimport added projects: CirrusSearch, I18n.
bzimport set Reference to bz64703.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

Makes sense to me. Institutional MediaWiki users might not want to install Cirrus, but, hey, I like the idea and giving people more reasons to install Cirrus doesn't hurt either.

This is in the same vein as bug 63975, just about search suggestions instead of results. My comments there on implementation are the same as here.

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