Last modified: 2013-12-13 04:25:17 UTC
Consider the following examples 1) "two or three words" http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=%22two+or+three+words%22&fulltext=Search The page [["two or three words"]] doesn't exists and MW shows the message -------------------------------------------- There were no results matching the query. Create the page ""two or three words"" on this wiki! -------------------------------------------- Since the quotes have a special meaning when used among the search terms, i.e. they are part of the "search syntax", the messages should be more contextualized. For example, if we search for "some words on Google Search Engine", we will get: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22some+words+on+Google+Search+Engine%22 -------------------------------------------- No results found for "some words on Google Search Engine". Results for some words on Google Search Engine (without quotes): ... -------------------------------------------- 2) intitle:Another example http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=intitle%3Aanother+example&fulltext=Search -------------------------------------------- There were no results matching the query. Create the page "Intitle:another example" on this wiki! -------------------------------------------- the string "intitle" also has a special meaning, so when the user uses it, and get no results, MW could provide some indication that by dropping that term there could be some result. The same idea applies to other strings having special meanings, such as "prefix" and symbols like "-" which is used to exclude some of the possible results.
(In reply to comment #0) > The same idea applies to other strings having special meanings, such as > "prefix" and symbols like "-" which is used to exclude some of the possible > results. ...and also to "ondiscussionpage", which is currently used by [[mw:Extension:LiquidThreads]] http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=EXAMPLE+ondiscussionpage%3ATalk%3AArticle+feedback&fulltext=1&ns90=1 and may lead to the creation of pages like http://pt.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Porque_somos_jogados_para_frente_do_%C3%B4nibus_quando_ele_freia_bruscamente_ondiscussionpage:Wikilivros:Pergunte_ao_bibliotec%C3%A1rio&action=edit&redlink=1 which will need to be deleted.
since "intitle:" is part of lucene, I think this would require a fix there, not in mw proper.
There is a thread related to this on enwiki's village pump. I'm adding it above.
This appears to be a duplicate of bug 21102. (I don't have the option to resolve it as such though.)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 21102 ***
