Hi Members,
I went to try the new search on Wikipedia. I entered "JavaScript" as the search argument and got back two entries:
1. JavaScript (47 bytes) 2. Javascript (47 bytes)
followed by a number of citations from articles.
The actual title of the article is "JavaScript." The two articles are one and the same. I realize that the difference is in the capitalization.
Is this the result we want? Two entries of the same article?
Further, if you look at the entries, they are clearly not 47 bytes, but much longer - what happened?
As Ever,
Ruth Ifcher
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Hi Members,
I went to try the new search on Wikipedia. I entered "JavaScript" as the
search argument and got back two entries:
- JavaScript (47 bytes)
- Javascript (47 bytes)
followed by a number of citations from articles.
The actual title of the article is "JavaScript." The two articles are one and the same. I realize that the difference is in the capitalization.
Is this the result we want? Two entries of the same article?
Further, if you look at the entries, they are clearly not 47 bytes, but much longer - what happened?
The article is not at 'JavaScript', but at 'ECMAScript programming language'. Both articles redirect there, which is the reason for the '47 bytes': The 47 bytes is the length of '#REDIRECT [[ECMAScript programming language]]'.
As to whether we want it - if you do not want it, please specify what you do want, and how it could be implemented. My own opinion is that it is a light nuisance at worst, not something to worry about.
Andre Engels
wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org