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Bug 29890 - Cannot search for parser functions (like #ask, #ifexist, etc) due to #
Cannot search for parser functions (like #ask, #ifexist, etc) due to #
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Search (Other open bugs)
1.21.x
All All
: Low enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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: 45583 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 17006
Blocks:
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Reported: 2011-07-14 02:23 UTC by badon
Modified: 2013-03-27 10:44 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description badon 2011-07-14 02:23:18 UTC
I don't know anything about this bug other than I've never been able to search for a hash tag on any mediawiki-based site. Semantic mediawiki, and related extensions, make extensive use of hash tags and search for documentation of them is virtually impossible if the keyword part of it is not something fairly unique like "arraymap" (for #arraymap). Searching for one like "ask" (for #ask) just can't be done due to the number of false hits.
Comment 1 Mark A. Hershberger 2011-07-18 18:16:00 UTC
What you're asking for isn't something MW really needs, AFAICT.  Reclassifying to SMW so devs there can see it and provide a fix.  Even if this is something that has to be fixed in core, the SMW devs are likely going to need to take the lead on it.
Comment 2 Chad H. 2011-07-18 18:18:33 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> What you're asking for isn't something MW really needs, AFAICT.  Reclassifying
> to SMW so devs there can see it and provide a fix.  Even if this is something
> that has to be fixed in core, the SMW devs are likely going to need to take the
> lead on it.

Has absolutely nothing to do with SMW. The same issue exists for #ifexists and lord knows how many other tags. That being said, I'm not convinced of the usefulness so I'm lowering priority to "lowest."
Comment 3 badon 2011-07-21 19:20:18 UTC
As far as usefulness is concerned, it is a barrier to entry for editors when they want to become more advanced, and search for documentation on things like #ifexist. 

Of course, if a mediawiki site were to be made that incorporates twitter tweets somehow, it would be impossible to find anything, since hashtags are how twitter organizes things.

In other words, mediawiki will likely not work well for anything that involves twitter, which is excluding quite a lot of potential applications for mediawiki due to a small bug in search.

Oh yeah, any programming language that has syntax using the format #something will not work either. It's not hard to think of more examples of where this bug can cripple someone's application of mediawiki.
Comment 4 Andre Klapper 2013-03-27 10:44:18 UTC
*** Bug 45583 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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