I said:
When I type in a search request, e.g., "Unix" or "Europe", Wikipedia reports "No article title matches" - even if there's an EXACT match that "Go" will find.
Lee Daniel Crocker lee@piclab.com replied:
Hmm. I just got lots of article title matches on both of those. Are you sure you're not reporting something that happened last night while I was rebuilding the text indexes?
No, it's been happening for over a week.
Brion Vibber vibber@aludra.usc.edu then said:
I've gone ahead and re-enabled the title search for now.
Hooray! Thank you very much! Title search is a really useful feature, and I'm glad to see it back.
If you ever have to disable it again, it'd be nice if the search results said so ("Sorry, title search has been disabled") and at least identified any exact match. But hopefully disabling title search won't be necessary again.
Lee Daniel Crocker lee@piclab.com said:
What /would/ be nice though is if the "Go" button were first, and I'll do that if I don't hear any objections.
No objections. In fact, that's a good thing. I know that I had a blindness to that particular button - I always hit "search" and never even noticed "go". That's probably because mentally I wanted to find something... so once I saw "search", I pressed it, because that was "obviously" what I wanted to do.
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