Hi, I just had a somewhat weird problem with the wiki. I wanted to see if we had an article on "tin can", so I typed it in and hit go. On my screen showed up the article "Ford Model T", redirected from "Tin Lizzie". Why would this occur? Meelar
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--- Dan Miller meelar2@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi, I just had a somewhat weird problem with the wiki. I wanted to see if we had an article on "tin can", so I typed it in and hit go. On my screen showed up the article "Ford Model T", redirected from "Tin Lizzie". Why would this occur? Meelar
The Go button isn't very predictible. If you want to be more specific, then just type the name of the article into the title bar of the web browser (ie. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_can ).
Daniel Ehrenberg
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Daniel-
The Go button isn't very predictible. If you want to be more specific, then just type the name of the article into the title bar of the web browser (ie. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_can ).
Ahem. It's not like the Go button picks pages randomly. "Tin can" does not exist. As a last ditch effort before falling through to the search, the Go button tries to find a near match for the entered phrase. This often means that only one of the terms in the query is matching.
However, given that this rarely leads to good results, it would probably be better to 1) improve capitalization tests (e.g. "duke of edinburgh" should match "Duke of Edinburgh") 2) fall through to the search when there's no exact match, or at least require all search words to be contained somewhere in the title.
Regards,
Erik