Searching for "wikipedia errors" triggers Search error
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	• bzimport
	May 24 2006, 1:32 AM

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Author: saff

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If you search in wikipedia for the phrase "wikipedia errors", the search churns
for quite some time, and finally returns the error message: "There was a problem
with your search. This is probably temporary; try again in a few moments, or you
can search Wikipedia through an external search service". This does not happen
with "Britannica errors", or just "wikipedia", but does appear to happen with
"errors"

Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
OS: Windows XP
Platform: PC
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=wikipedia+errors&fulltext=Search

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 9:19 PM

• bzimport added a project: WMF-General-or-Unknown.

• bzimport set Reference to bz6066.

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

• bzimport created this task.May 24 2006, 1:32 AM

naconk wrote:

Search is temporarily overwhelmed. Please try again in a few minutes.

saff wrote:

Did so. This is three times today with the same behavior: "britannica errors"
always quickly produces results. "wikipedia errors" always produces an error
page, sometimes fairly quickly. Does it actually WORKFORYOU?

naconk wrote:

Ok, I misunderstood you. You are putting the entire term "wikipedia errors"
(including the quotes) in the search box, is that correct?

Works fine here now.

Note that:

Search is sometimes temporarily overloaded
Results are cached for several minutes.

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