Last modified: 2011-04-06 22:22:12 UTC
As described at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Stylistic_differences, the Search suggestion box suggests both articles and their redirects, so for example, when someone starts to type Albert Einsten they get suggested "Albert Einsten" AND "Albert einsten" (which is a redirect to the latter). To quote Pwnage8: "It's really frustrating to type something and have five similar titles that are all redirects pop up. It's just clutter." Is this possible to fix? Sincerely, [[en:Foxy Loxy]]
*** Bug 18212 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
please, add checkbox to preferences, which will not show redirects in search form suggest
Created attachment 5974 [details] proposed patch This patch may help, but it needs to be reviewed by anyone from API assignees (perhaps Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw@home.nl>).
I disagree with this bug. There are sometimes redirects which are not simply stylistic differences. For instance, on the French Wikipedia, [[:fr:Adam RA-17]] (a small airplane without its own article) redirects to [[:fr:Roger Adam]] (its constructor). If there are no more redirects in the search box, you don't know that the article Adam RA-17 exists when you search in the search box. I purpose to either add a checkbox in the preferences (like Andrew Butko said) either mark the redirects in the search box (e.g. in italic): ''Adam RA-17'' Adam Raga ''Adam raga''
Redirects are indeed useful, especially for search suggestions. If third party gadgets want a way to query the opensearch-api without redirects (ie. "Add boolean option to opensearch api to include/filter redirects"), then please open a seperate ticket for that.