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Bug 1099 - multiple searches should be 'and' instead of 'or'
multiple searches should be 'and' instead of 'or'
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Search (Other open bugs)
1.4.x
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2004-12-14 14:22 UTC by Andre Engels
Modified: 2010-05-15 15:33 UTC (History)
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Description Andre Engels 2004-12-14 14:22:50 UTC 
When more than one word is filled in in a search, the search returns all pages
containing _any_ of those words. It sould be much more useful to get the pages
containing _all_ of those words.

(In particular on the Chinese Wikipedia, where each character is considered a
single word, I am getting the feeling one might as well switch off searching
without losing much usability...)
Comment 1 Darkoneko 2005-09-29 00:37:26 UTC 
well, it would be even better if we could select "AND" or "OR" mode :)
Comment 2 Brion Vibber 2006-04-25 05:41:34 UTC 
Didn't we fix this many versions ago?
Comment 3 Ben Gertzfield 2006-04-25 15:21:09 UTC 
Currently with SearchMySQL4.php, all searches *are* "AND" by default; if no other operator is present, + is prepended to each word in the search.

However, there seems to be no way to select "OR" mode with the current behavior; you can't remove the + from any word, because SearchEngine.php strips all non-
alphanumeric characters from the search.

The patch attached to bug 5711 allows admins to choose "AND" or "OR" mode for the default mode of MySQL 4.x-based search.
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