Last modified: 2007-03-13 21:59:33 UTC
If you seach in the Logs (Block, Protection, Deletion, ...) you can enter search informaiton in the "User" and/or "Title" form field. You will only be able to find matches if you enter the complete name. It seems not to be possible to only enter a part of the name If an article "This is just an example to explain the bug" is deleted, it should be able to find it in the block log by entering "just an example" and hitting return. Or "*just an example*". This would also be very usefull in searching IP(-range)s in the logs.
We're not going to allow searching for a substring anywhere in a string in the log_user, log_title or log_comment fields in miser mode. Currently there is an index (In reply to comment #0) > If you seach in the Logs (Block, Protection, Deletion, ...) you can enter search > informaiton in the "User" and/or "Title" form field. You will only be able to > find matches if you enter the complete name. It seems not to be possible to only > enter a part of the name Confirmed > If an article "This is just an example to explain the bug" is deleted, it should > be able to find it in the block log by entering "just an example" and hitting > return. Or "*just an example*". LIKE "%foo%" would be too expensive an operating to enable since it would result in a table scan.
As I remember a "substring search" was available some time ago at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Imagelist . Now you may search for "arba" at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Newimages&limit=48
Maybe a lighter solution like [[Special:Userlist]] would be possible? Since a few month a search with e.g. "Ray" gives a usernames list like "Ray*". Maybe a searchmattern "Ray*" is not so expensive then "%ray%"?
Realized for field "title" with r20409. Added an option for search e.g. "Test%". Other forms like "T%est%" are too expensive and disabled. I will close this bug as FIXED. If someone needs a pattern search for the field "user" too feel free to reopen this bug or file a new bug.
