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 https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry
On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Thad Guidry thadguidry@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
AH !
The issue was that I had a special search mode that I had remembered for future searches. MAIN was not checked :( I've resolved that now :)
I hope that the main search in the top right corner does not use special search or my search preferences....until I click on the "containing..." at the bottom of the dropdown list ? or does that search input box always use my preferences (currently MAIN and PROPERTY) ? [image: Capture.PNG]
Thanks Lydia
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Thad Guidry thadguidry@gmail.com wrote:
AH !
The issue was that I had a special search mode that I had remembered for future searches. MAIN was not checked :( I've resolved that now :)
I hope that the main search in the top right corner does not use special search or my search preferences....until I click on the "containing..." at the bottom of the dropdown list ? or does that search input box always use my preferences (currently MAIN and PROPERTY) ?
The two searches are pretty much completely independent. So settings like which namespace to search in are not shared.
Cheers Lydia
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