[QA] Prefix search broken in beta

Chad Horohoe chorohoe at wikimedia.org
Tue Dec 17 16:53:13 UTC 2013


I hate TitleKey

We should already halt TitleKey from doing its prefix matching
since our hook returns false (and we *should* execute first).

TitleKey does some other weird stuff too, I talked with Brion about
it a few months ago.

-Chad


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Nikolas Everett <neverett at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> It looks like Beta is using the "TitleKey" extension.  That extension
> registers itself to handle prefix searches and doesn't let cirrus take a
> crack at performing the prefix searches.  Thus, folks are complaining that
> prefix searching is broken in beta.
>
> It looks like the plugin is designed to provide case insensitive matching
> for "go" and prefix searches.  Cirrus already does that for prefix
> searches.  So maybe we could do the same for go matches?
>
> Nik
>
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