On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Thad Guidry <thadguidry(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I am not able to successfully get results on topics
that have diacritics in
their label while logged in and searching Wikidata.
Searching for "Marc Marquez" this morning did not show any results. I began
to create an entry for this motorcycle road racer and later discovered that
he already had an entry. I noticed that the "Also known as" for English
only had a diacritic label "Marc Márquez i Alentà ". I then added another
"Also known as" Marc Marquez and this resolved the problem of finding the
correct original topic. I merged my erroneous new topic into the original
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40615
Is there an effort already in progress to fix diacritic insensitive search
or investigate why it might not be working for logged in English users ?
I only found this older Phabricator issue for Autocomplete during data
entry, and not main search:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T49114
-Thad
+ThadGuidry
Hi Thad,
The entity selector can't deal with it at the moment. However
Special:Search can. You get there for example when selecting "more" in
the entity selector at the top. To fix the entity selector properly we
need to switch it to using Elastic Search as the backend. The ticket
for that is
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143706
Cheers
Lydia
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