Special:SearchTranslations: allow messageid with ElasticSearch
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	Nullzero
	Jul 24 2014, 5:41 PM

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I'm not sure if this bug should belong to translatewiki or MediaWiki. If you think that it should be moved, just do it!

Description:
[[gerrit:94064]] added an external link to translatewiki.net to every message
in Special:AllMessages. While this change is a very good idea, the produced links are completely broken. Below are some examples.

Example 1

Message ID:
abusefilter-changeslist-examine

Link:
https://th.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AllMessages&prefix=abusefilter-changeslist-examine&filter=all&lang=th&limit=500

Link to translatewiki:
https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3ASearchTranslations&group=mediawiki&grouppath=mediawiki&query=language%3Ath^25+messageid%3A%22MediaWiki%3AAbusefilter-changeslist-examine%22^10+%22examine%22

Generated query:
language:th^25 messageid:"MediaWiki:Abusefilter-changeslist-examine"^10 "examine"

Results (failed):

examine - MediaWiki:Abusefilter-changeslist-examine/en
Examine individual changes - MediaWiki:Abusefilter-examine/en
Examine past edits - MediaWiki:Abusefilter-topnav-examine/en

...

There is no MediaWiki:abusefilter-changeslist-examine/th in the result at all.

Example 2

Message ID:
MediaWiki:Anonnotice

Link:
https://th.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AllMessages&prefix=Anonnotice&filter=all&lang=th&limit=500

Generated query:
language:th^25 messageid:"MediaWiki:Anonnotice"^10 "-"

Results (failed):

10. - MediaWiki:Oct/cs
10 - MediaWiki:Oct/ko
Button label, 25 characters maximum - MediaWiki:Donate interface-monthly-donation/qqq

There is no MediaWiki:Anonnotice/th in the result at all.

My observation:

The solr search does not yield consistent results at all. Last month (June 25, 2014), I encountered this bug and attempted to solve it ([[gerrit:141728]]). Although my patch was not okay, I finally found the cause of the problem. That is, searching with query string

(for example, https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3ASearchTranslations&group=mediawiki&grouppath=mediawiki&query=language%3Ath^25+messageid%3A%22MediaWiki%3AAbusefilter-changeslist-examine%22^10+%22examine%22)

yielded wrong results, while searching via search box

(for example, language:th^25 messageid:"MediaWiki:Abusefilter-changeslist-examine"^10 "examine")

yielded correct results.

Even worse, now (July 25, 2014), both ways yield wrong results!

Version: master
Severity: normal

Details

Reference: bz68518

Related Objects

Mentioned In: T162190: "Translate" links on Special:AllMessages should link directly to the respective messages at translatewiki.net
T22860: [[Special:Allmessages]] to have direct (edit) link
T97944: Add operators for new filters (like state, case)
T62570: Allow "go" search feature to reach messages
T93600: One Stop Translation
T92929: Reinvent Translation Search
T89103: One stop translation search
Mentioned Here: rETRAaf8fac79b16b: Search with exact title match

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 3:30 AM

• bzimport added projects: MW-extension-1.24-version, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate, I18n.

• bzimport set Reference to bz68518.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

Nullzero created this task.Jul 24 2014, 5:41 PM

translatewiki.net is no longer using Solr since https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/145437/ (cf. bug 52993 - Add support for ElasticSearch backend for ttmserver).

I confirm my two examples on [[gerrit:94064]] don't work any longer. Niklas, is that syntax supposed to work with the new scheme, or does it still need to be reimplemented?

It has not been implemented for ES. It is possible to implement it with some manual query parsing as we don't expose the full query syntax with ES.

Legoktm edited projects, added MW-1.24-release; removed MW-extension-1.24-version.Dec 16 2014, 6:45 PM

• Nikerabbit moved this task from Backlog to tux on the MediaWiki-extensions-Translate board.Jan 28 2015, 5:02 AM

• Nikerabbit added a parent task: T89103: One stop translation search.Feb 11 2015, 7:45 AM

Nemo_bis removed a parent task: T89103: One stop translation search.Feb 11 2015, 3:04 PM

Nemo_bis mentioned this in T89103: One stop translation search.Mar 17 2015, 9:17 AM

Nemo_bis mentioned this in T92929: Reinvent Translation Search.Mar 23 2015, 10:33 AM

AYUSH mentioned this in T93600: One Stop Translation.Mar 23 2015, 4:24 PM

Removing from MW-1.24-release because this isn't going to be fixed in the next few months' worth of security point releases.

Jdforrester-WMF removed a project: MW-1.24-release.May 24 2015, 12:22 PM

Jdforrester-WMF set Security to None.

Nemo_bis added a project: Translation-search.May 25 2015, 6:24 AM

Nemo_bis added a subscriber: Phoenix303.

• Nikerabbit moved this task from tux to search on the MediaWiki-extensions-Translate board.Jul 21 2015, 8:01 PM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptJul 21 2015, 8:01 PM

We don't seem to have a patch for this yet, though there is https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/196140/5 which is related.

Nemo_bis mentioned this in T62570: Allow "go" search feature to reach messages.Aug 17 2015, 9:13 AM

Nemo_bis mentioned this in T97944: Add operators for new filters (like state, case).Aug 17 2015, 9:46 AM

af8fac79b16b026387d74ec9cbbed26aba3b87a1 was merged, but it does not work well enough with partial message key matches which is the whole point of the search (we don't always know the message key): https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3ASearchTranslations&query=entitydata-unsupported-format doesn't quite find wikibase-entitydata-unsupported-format though of course it's a case lucky enough to work with full text https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3ASearchTranslations&query=The+data+format+%241+is+not+supported+by+this+interface.++entitydata-unsupported-format

Niklas thinks that the full text search is enough and that prefixed message keys are rare.

Nemo_bis reassigned this task from Nemo_bis to • Nikerabbit.Aug 17 2015, 8:00 PM

Nemo_bis mentioned this in T22860: [[Special:Allmessages]] to have direct (edit) link.Apr 3 2017, 7:06 PM

Vito-Genovese mentioned this in T162190: "Translate" links on Special:AllMessages should link directly to the respective messages at translatewiki.net.Apr 4 2017, 7:58 PM

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