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
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