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Bug 20460 - Multiple spelling suggestions
Multiple spelling suggestions
Status: REOPENED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Search (Other open bugs)
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: Low enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:...
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Reported: 2009-09-01 04:01 UTC by seahen123
Modified: 2014-11-18 18:07 UTC (History)
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Description seahen123 2009-09-01 04:01:56 UTC 
When I search en.wikipedia for Tanelon, MediaWiki suggests Taelon as a correction. The user making this search could just as easily mean Tanelorn, as I did. Since no one guess as to what the user means will be reliably correct, the best course of action would be to suggest both.
Comment 1 Chad H. 2009-09-02 01:51:03 UTC 
CCing Raymond.
Comment 2 Robert Stojnic 2009-09-02 01:58:27 UTC 
The algorithm might not always guess what exactly you meant, but to keep the interface clean, we show only one most common (most linked to if an article) suggestion. To search for more similar words, you might want to use a query like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=Tanelon~&fulltext=Search&ns0=1
Comment 3 seahen123 2009-09-02 02:34:29 UTC 
Then why not have a link that would add the tilde, labeled "more suggestions" or something similar?
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