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.
Can "Search" do the following: 1. Report an EXACT match, if there is one, no matter what? 2. Report that title searching has been disabled (if it has), instead of reporting that there are no matches?
I understand why it's been disabled (performance), but it gives new users a MUCH worse impression of Wikipedia's contents than is deserved. Currently, it looks like Wikipedia has no content, and it CLEARLY reports that there are no title matches even when there are. I suspect many people don't notice the "Go" button - I didn't until someone else mentioned it on the mailing list.
I put this in as a Bug report, but I'm not sure I made myself clear. Sorry if I wasn't clear.
Thanks.
(David A. Wheeler dwheeler@dwheeler.com): 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.
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?
On Thu, 8 May 2003, David A. Wheeler wrote:
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.
I've gone ahead and re-enabled the title search for now.
It may make more sense to just replace 'search' with the 'go' function at this point...
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
(Brion Vibber vibber@aludra.usc.edu): On Thu, 8 May 2003, David A. Wheeler wrote:
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.
I've gone ahead and re-enabled the title search for now.
It may make more sense to just replace 'search' with the 'go' function at this point...
When the new server comes up, it might well be possible to re-enable general text searching. If not, at least title searching.
What /would/ be nice though is if the "Go" button were first, and I'll do that if I don't hear any objections.
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