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If there is a page with the exact name, it should appear first in the link auto-complete list
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Description

Select some text and press Ctrl-K. A link inspector will show, and after a moment, an auto-complete. It's quite likely that an article with this precise title appears in the same wiki, but in the current auto-complete algorithm it won't necessarily appear first in the list, even though it makes sense for it to be first - intuition tells me that that's probably what the editor wants.

I cannot reproduce this consistently, but it happens to me currently with the string "Àrea de lliure comerç" in the Catalan Wikipedia.


Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
See Also:
T71780: If there is a page with the exact name, it should appear first in the link auto-complete list
T57390: VisualEditor: The link suggestor should suggest links from the current namespace ahead of named links
T64917: Give exact match when looking for a specific file
T71716: Search results (for links, redirects, categories…) should select the exact match by default

Details

Reference
bz69780

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:28 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz69780.

This is partly a bug in our search backend, but it can also happen because we choose to deprioritize redirects and disambig pages and list them in a separate section.

Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from VisualEditor: If there is a page with the exact name, it should appear first in the link auto-complete list to If there is a page with the exact name, it should appear first in the link auto-complete list.Dec 2 2014, 10:26 PM
Jdforrester-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.
Jdforrester-WMF set Security to None.
Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to Freezer on the VisualEditor board.