I'm running a self-hosted wiki, so unfortunately can't provide a URL. The search is performed on the standard [[Special:Search]] page. It may matter that we're running the wiki on two servers, using Percona MySQL for data replication between the servers. A load balancer sends users to whichever server has the fewest active connections.
-----Original Message----- From: Stas Malyshev [mailto:smalyshev@wikimedia.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2019 5:39 PM To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org; Hogan (US), Michael C Michael.C.Hogan2@boeing.com Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Unstable search results - possible causes
Hi!
I'm using the built-in Mediawiki search engine. We just updated from 1.30.0 to 1.31.0. Since the update, search results are unstable. The same search term gives different results in different web browsers. We also see different results across browser sessions. Any advice on how I can troubleshoot this?
Could you provide more info - which search you're talking about (URL might help, or description of the sequence of actions), which terms, what you're getting in different cases? Some search results might depend on your preferences or user language selected, so there might be difference, e.g. for different logged-in users.
Thanks, -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@wikimedia.org