Searching for "Foo" (with quotes), which AWB sends to the API as
results in the first result being Quotation mark
Quotation mark Foobar Foo (disambiguation) Foo-foo Foo Fighters
Desktop example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/%27%22Foo%22%27
I've got a feeling this might actually be some form of a dupe. CC'ing @GoingBatty who filed it against AWB originally
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T169418 [AutoWikiBrowser] Make list related tickets | |||
| Resolved | Rjwilmsi | T91219 Searching for term within quotation marks returns three incorrect results |
so then when you search for "Foo" in AWB it actually searches for '"Foo"'
instead? why?
Per Josve05a's mention, this example returns a typographical dash (--) in the list as well.
I hadn't noticed 'Dash' because I keep my list sorted.
At any rate, I would say this is quite an annoyance.
This has nothing to do with the API either, the API is just returning what it is given by the search backend. This is also shown by the fact that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/'%22Foo%22' returns the same results.
It seems this question hasnt been answered.
If the user searches for "Foo" ...
AWB should be using this URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srwhat=text&srsearch=%22Foo%22&srlimit=max
Removing Discovery-Search (Current work) as this primarily appears to be a problem with a client's encoding rather than anything on our end.