Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:24:36 UTC
Please provide a $wg... configuration setting or a user preference to give the AJAX autosuggest feature the ability to search not only in the beginning, but anywhere in the article name. reason 1: example article: Pixar's Disney Toy Story search for: Disney current result: no result You currently only would get results with typing: Pi... reason 2: This would also important when searching beyond namespaces... example: The category "Disney" exists but no article "Disney" search for: Disney current result: nothing You only would get results with typing: Category:D... reason 3: The autosuggest feature currently does not replace the[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Search_Suggest Extension:Search Suggest] for this functionality like stated on the page of this extension. But this extension was unfortunatly only able to search in articles without namespace preposition. Configuration setting here was: $location = 1; //set to 1 to search anywhere in the article name, set to 0 to search only at the begining reason 4: requested by another user at [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual_talk:$wgEnableMWSuggest#Extend_the_search] It can not be a good solution to set redirects for alternative or incomplete terms, especially not when #16145 (mwsuggest.js should not return redirects) get into the core. Thank you.
Not related to mwsuggest.js, this requests a major feature in the search suggestions infrastructure in general (called OpenSearch). Note that is unlikely coming soon due to the fact how database indexes work. If possible, we'd have to use an index outside of MySQL. Ie. something Lucene-related.
Any updates on this bug? I'm not certain, but think the component should be changed to "OpenSearchXml".
