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Bug 20784 - Search should support searching all old revisions of the wiki pages
Search should support searching all old revisions of the wiki pages
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
CirrusSearch (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Lowest enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Depends on: 10643
Blocks:
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Reported: 2009-09-23 14:24 UTC by Anon Sricharoenchai
Modified: 2014-02-20 02:39 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Description Anon Sricharoenchai 2009-09-23 14:24:47 UTC
MWSearch should support searching all old revisions of the wiki pages.

This will help the task of investigating the historical pages.
Comment 1 Anon Sricharoenchai 2009-09-23 14:27:12 UTC
Lucene-search should support searching all old revisions of the wiki pages.
Comment 2 Brion Vibber 2009-09-23 17:43:34 UTC
Marking this one 'later'; would be dependent on having the general infrastructure for full-history search in UI and updating (bug 10643).
Comment 3 Diederik van Liere 2011-11-29 23:54:17 UTC
As an interim solution, you can use the Diffdb (https://github.com/whym/diffindexer) and Wikihadoop (https://github.com/whym/wikihadoop) for this. Contact me if you want to know more.
Comment 4 Andre Klapper 2012-12-12 13:32:14 UTC
[Removing RESOLVED LATER as discussed in
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-November/064240.html .
Reopening and setting priority to "Lowest".
For future reference, please use either RESOLVED WONTFIX (for issues that will
not be fixed), or simply set lowest priority. Thanks a lot!]
Comment 5 Andre Klapper 2013-03-26 11:19:27 UTC
[Merging "MediaWiki extensions/Lucene Search" into "Wikimedia/lucene-search2", see bug 46542. You can filter bugmail for: search-component-merge-20130326 ]
Comment 6 Dan Garry 2014-02-10 18:19:45 UTC
We're migrating from Lucene to CirrusSearch. Moving this bug accordingly.
Comment 7 Dan Garry 2014-02-10 18:23:21 UTC
This feature probably makes the most sense on a per-page basis, e.g. the user story "As an editor, I want to be able to search the history of a specific page so I can know if certain information was added into the page and removed.".

Also, title fix.
Comment 8 Chad H. 2014-02-20 02:39:46 UTC
Actually the more I think about it, this is going to be a WONTFIX for MediaWiki & Cirrus. Search is inherently about finding information that's currently on the wiki. Plus storing all the revisions of the page would basically double our storage requirements for what's essentially a power-user feature.

For history searching, we have dumps.

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