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Bug 20858 - Create full-text search for message keys and content on [[Special:Allmessages]]
Create full-text search for message keys and content on [[Special:Allmessages]]
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
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All All
: Low enhancement with 2 votes (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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: 24195 25350 33770 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2009-09-29 02:33 UTC by FT2
Modified: 2013-03-28 02:59 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description FT2 2009-09-29 02:33:34 UTC 
Filtering on message prefix is inadequate, there can be many dozens of messages with a given prefix.

Can we have filtering on other fields? Specifically I'd like the ability to "live filter" on text "anywhere in the message or its title", so I can type a string in, and only messages with that text in the default, or the name, or the current version, are listed.
Comment 1 FT2 2009-09-29 02:34:09 UTC 
"filtering on other fields as well", rather.
Comment 2 Platonides 2009-10-08 21:44:52 UTC 
Searching the content is a frequent use case.
To find a message name, in the old system you went to Special:Allmessages and used your browser search.
Now you have to go to Special:Allmessages, change the combobox to All, wait to reload the big page, search there, go to the next page... having a useless prefix search at the top.

Having the backend perform the search would be much more efficient.
Comment 3 John Mark Vandenberg 2011-05-08 14:11:15 UTC 
*** Bug 25350 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 John Mark Vandenberg 2011-05-08 14:11:33 UTC 
*** Bug 24195 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Subfader 2012-01-17 17:28:54 UTC 
*** Bug 33770 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Subfader 2012-01-17 17:29:02 UTC 
Add proper search input to Special:Allmessages

The prexif input on Special:Allmessages is useless 99% of the time and therefor
extremely user unfriendly.

Add a (additional?) proper search input instead. The results should be
displayed like the prefix input.

A lame workaround would be to link that input to Special:Search with the
MediaWiki NS selected
(Special:Search&profile=advanced&search=foo&fulltext=Search&ns8=1), but that
would result non-messages pages like gadgets as well.
Comment 7 Krinkle 2012-05-11 18:43:50 UTC 
(In reply to comment #6)
> A lame workaround would be to link that input to Special:Search with the
> MediaWiki NS selected
> (Special:Search&profile=advanced&search=foo&fulltext=Search&ns8=1), but that
> would result non-messages pages like gadgets as well.

In addition, messages that are not locally overwritten will probably not match in the search results  either, because they are not wiki pages. The (default) interface messages are stored in the software, not on the wiki.

As a work around for *that* one could use Special:Search on the MediaWiki namespace on translatewiki.net, because there all messages are on the wiki (it is where the messages are born, sort of :D)
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