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Work out what VisualEditor should do (if anything) if search lies and claims a link doesn't exist when it does
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Steps to reproduce:

  1. Open VE
  2. Type "backlog"
  3. Select "backlog"
  4. Hit ctl-k, get link dialog (text "backlog" is selected, "Search articles" is highlighted)
  5. Paste "Wikipedia:Contribution_Team/Backlogs"
  6. Box pops up to say "page does not exist yet"

Expected behavior:

  1. Since page exists, don't say that the page does not exist

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LuisVilla created this task.May 8 2015, 3:09 PM
LuisVilla raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.
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nshahquinn-wmf added a subscriber: nshahquinn-wmf.EditedMay 8 2015, 11:36 PM

@LuisVilla, just tried this on Mediawiki wiki using Firefox 37.0.2—it seems to work.

Am I missing anything?

nshahquinn-wmf triaged this task as Medium priority.May 8 2015, 11:37 PM
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LuisVilla added a comment.May 9 2015, 12:07 AM

Weird. Works now. Caching or something maybe was broken this morning? Dunno.

Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from told "link does not exist yet" when link exists to Work out what VisualEditor should do (if anything) if search lies and claims a link doesn't exist when it does.May 29 2015, 5:36 PM
Jdforrester-WMF lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Low.
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Re-worded.

Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to Freezer on the VisualEditor board.Jun 18 2015, 12:59 AM
Jdforrester-WMF merged a task: T101611: Link inspector input wrongly shown as "does not exist" when redirect exists.Jul 3 2015, 3:55 PM
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Deskana closed this task as Declined.Aug 30 2018, 1:05 PM
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Devoting time to figuring out this edge case does not seem worth it. The search index is updated very frequently, so it should almost never happen nowadays that a page exists but isn't found by our internal search system.

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