Cross posting for folks who do not also follow the Wikitech-l list.
Some work from the Wikimedia Foundation's search team that may make
finding things with built-in search on Wikitech a bit nicer.
Bryan
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From: Erik Bernhardson <ebernhardson(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 5:50 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Change in autocomplete behavior on wikitech and
mw.org
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
The default autocomplete profile has been changed to include sub phrase
matching. Essentially this means the autocomplete matching can start at
various points within the page title, rather than only at the very start.
This has shown to be particularly useful on sites with long or nested page
titles like
mw.org and wikitech.
This is only the default, if you don't enjoy the new behaviour it can be
changed back to the default profile (or other, stricter profiles) from the
Special:Preferences Search tab.
Related ticket:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212788
Erik B.
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