The fuzzy sub phrases requires being turned on per wiki, this is enabled
for wikisource and some technical wikis, but not on wikipedia due to the
index having to be fully in memory (as opposed to most search indices which
are disk based). Basically we have turned it on for specific sites which
had a reasonably low number of pages and where the usefulness appeared
particularly high.
While not the same as autocomplete, one option to get fuzzy matching is to
use full text search with "intitle:DeusEx~". The final ~ tells the search
engine to apply fuzzy matching, and the intitle: limits the search to only
titles. Also note that while fuzzy can be useful for dealing with typo's,
it can also do rather undesirable things. For example a fuzzy match for
"hat~" matches "HA", "hae", "hart",
"hal","han", etc."ham", "hao", etc.
Erik B.
Erik B.
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 8:31 AM Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
I see they're not listed as options in the
auto-generated help at
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?modules=opensearch. You'd have to ask
the people working on CirrusSearch about the history there.
On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 9:41 PM Invertex <reversenorms(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Saw these two profile options in the wiki and was
hoping to use them, but
when I try it just says it's unrecognized.
Example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=opensearch&pr…
Were these two profile options removed at some point but never updated on
the wiki?
Thanks!
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