Last modified: 2011-11-25 00:11:07 UTC
A search in Wikipedia reports the wrong number of hits. For example, until recently, searching for "supercede" (without quote marks) in the Main namespace, including redirects, returned the right number of hits. A few days ago there were 12 actual hits, and 12 hits were reported. Then 16 hits were reported, although there were still 12. On 24 November at !9:25 20 hits were reported, but 12 hits were still recorded. So either the number of hits is reported incorrectly, or possibly the number is correct and not all hits are listed (I don't think so, 8 new uses of "supercede" in a week or so would be unusual). I report this as searching for "search result number" in Bugzilla finds nothing.
A search in Wikipedia reports the wrong number of hits. For example, until recently, searching for "supercede" (without quote marks) in the Main namespace, including redirects, resulted in Results 1 - 12 of 12 for "supercede" followed by a list of 12 articles. This number has been reported correctly for years. A week or two ago 16 hits were reported, although only 12 were still listed. On 24 November at !9:25 20 <Results 1 - 20 of 20 for "supercede"}> was displayed, followed by a list of 12 articles, the same articles as had been listed for 12 and then 16 results. So either the number of hits is reported incorrectly, or possibly the number is correct and not all hits are listed (I don't think so, 8 new uses of "supercede" in a week or so would be unusual). I report this as new, as searching for "search result number" in Bugzilla finds nothing.
This is due to bug 32376 which as been resolved. It will take couple of days to get back to normal though, since all the wrongly indexed pages need to be re-indexed. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 32376 ***
