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Bug 21555 - Special:Log should support keyword (or non-exact title) search
Special:Log should support keyword (or non-exact title) search
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Search (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Low enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log
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Reported: 2009-11-18 03:11 UTC by Stmrlbs
Modified: 2011-04-14 15:10 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Stmrlbs 2009-11-18 03:11:14 UTC
It is now necessary to have to enter the '''''exact title''''' of an article - exact ''including punctuation'' - in order to find an article in any of the logs.  This search would be much more user friendly and would be more like what most people are used to if the LOGs search would search for a key word instead of requiring an exact title.  This is especially a problem for the deletion logs, as a lot of people looking at the deletion logs are new to wikipedia and usually trying to find out why their article got deleted.  You can see many people at the help des asking "what happened to my article" because they can't find it in the deletion log.  I couldn't find a title because I searched for "Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus" [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&user=&page=Searching+for+the+Wrong+Eyed+Jesus] instead of "Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus" [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&user=&page=Searching+for+the+Wrong-Eyed+Jesus].  Ack!  

I asked rainman about this, and he said, "This is because the logs search is separate from fulltext search and is using the default mysql engine. The problem you describe could in principle be solved by adding a stripped version of the article title and then search that via mysql."  So, I thought it might help if a solution was presented along with the problem.

Thanks.

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