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Bug 1853 - Search: mishanding? of quote character (double-quotation mark)
Search: mishanding? of quote character (double-quotation mark)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Search (Other open bugs)
unspecified
PC Windows XP
: Normal minor (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
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Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported: 2005-04-09 10:56 UTC by BugMeNotLovesWiki
Modified: 2005-04-10 00:15 UTC (History)
0 users

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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Description BugMeNotLovesWiki 2005-04-09 10:56:49 UTC
To reproduce this 'bug':
    - visit URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
    - in search field enter: 
        "foo"
      (including double-quotation marks ... BTW foo is actually a legitimate,
existing article on wiki)
    - press enter

Expected behaviour:
    - delivered to URL:
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo

Observed Behaviour:
    - Delivered to 'Search results - No page with that title exists' page:
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%22foo%22&go=Go

(Note that searching on:
    foo
 [i.e. without the double-quotation marks] gives the 'correct', expected behaviour)

---- 
Thoughts:
    - it seems that double-quoatation marks are being mishandled in search?
    - maybe a bug, maybe not a bug .... but failing to locate "foo" is not what
I would consider 'expected benaviour'
    - good or bad google has defined what is search, and the syntax as well
    - suggest that google's method of handling of double-quotation marks be
considered and adopted
...
    - unless it's possible that 
        "foo" 
      and 
        foo
      might be different articles? I'm not familiar with the rules of
nomenclature for wiki article names.

(Thanks for wiki folks! - If needed I can be emailed at freeman_once att reazon
dott dyndnz dott org ... use letter 'esss' instead of letter 'zeee')
Comment 1 Brion Vibber 2005-04-10 00:15:35 UTC
I'd been intending to add this after some earlier search-related feedback but forgot 
to check it in yet. Fixed now in CVS HEAD and REL1_4 and live on Wikimedia sites.

It is in fact possible for "foo" and Foo to be different pages. :) I've set it to try 
trimming the quotes on a double-quoted term if the first set of checks don't find a 
match. This seems to work reasonably well.

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