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Bug 16145 - Hide redirects from search suggestions (mwsuggest.js)
Hide redirects from search suggestions (mwsuggest.js)
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Search (Other open bugs)
1.18.x
All All
: Normal minor with 1 vote (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi...
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: 18212 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: javascript
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Reported: 2008-10-27 12:12 UTC by en:Fl
Modified: 2011-04-06 22:22 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


Attachments
proposed patch (7.91 KB, patch)
2009-03-28 16:04 UTC, Ahmad Sherif
Details

Description en:Fl 2008-10-27 12:12:02 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]]
Comment 1 Chad H. 2009-03-28 00:50:25 UTC
*** Bug 18212 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Andrew Butko 2009-03-28 09:43:04 UTC
please, add checkbox to preferences, which will not show redirects in search
form suggest
Comment 3 Ahmad Sherif 2009-03-28 16:04:23 UTC
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>).
Comment 4 Seb35 2009-08-16 11:33:46 UTC
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''
Comment 5 Krinkle 2011-04-06 22:22:12 UTC
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.

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