Last modified: 2013-03-26 11:24:52 UTC
Search seems to ignore all numbers. For instance, searching for 2005 will return no matches. Searching for "The Ring" 1927 will return the same list as searching for "The Ring" It may be understandable to ignore single- or two-digit numbers, but it seems that 4-digit and above should be indexed (I could go either way with 3-digit numbers).
Please include details such as which wiki this is on. Is this the MySQL 3 search, the MySQL 4 search, or the Lucene search?
(In reply to comment #1) > Please include details such as which wiki this is on. Is this the MySQL 3 search, the MySQL 4 search, or the Lucene search? This is on en:Wikipedia, the Lucene search. I don't know if this is also true of the other searches.
Suggest that this seems to be duplicate of Bug 42, or perhaps vice-versa.
Hi, I have just transferred over a hundred lab procedures in our new wiki (media wiki 1.6.5). However I've just noticed that text searches don't include numbers. So we can't look up dates, versions and other strings that may contain numbers (ex: 3D, Nad83, NTV2...). This bug is severe limitations to our lab wiki. Is there a work around out there? Will this be fixed in a future wiki version?
Fixed in Lucene Search 2, numbers are now being indexed.
[Merging "MediaWiki extensions/Lucene Search" into "Wikimedia/lucene-search2", see bug 46542. You can filter bugmail for: search-component-merge-20130326 ]