Author: dymben

Description:
If search results would have contained a restricted page, and the user is not logged in or not on the access list, instead of being shown search results (e.g. including a mix of unrestricted pages and one or more restricted pages,) the user is denied access entirely.

Choosing search keywords to find the same unrestricted pages but not the restricted pages too can be difficult. The impression the user gets is that searching the wiki is simply unreliable, decreasing the likelihood they will turn to the wiki next time they need to look something up.

While I see there are later versions of this control available, Debian only currently supports MediaWiki 1.19, so I could not easily check if the issue is resolved in a later version.

Please resolve, or advise what I can do to resolve this issue.

Thanks,
Ben

Version: REL1_21-branch
Severity: normal