On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:00 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I just went looking for the word "referer".
The response started with
lots of instances of the word "reference". Put it in quotes, no
difference. Eventually resorted to Google.
Is
MW.org using the exciting new search engine? Is there any way to
search without using synonyms?
It is using the exciting new search engine but that search engine has
a bug:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54020
For now, go back to the old search system by adding
&srbackend=LuceneSearch to the search url like so:
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=de…
Feel free to add yourself to the cc list to watch our progress squashing it.
Nik