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Bug 10609 - Remove redirects from AJAX Search results


Summary:	Remove redirects from AJAX Search results

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Product:	MediaWiki
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Search (Other open bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Lowest trivial (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Nobody - You can work on this!

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Reported:	2007-07-16 22:17 UTC by Sergey Chernyshev
Modified:	2011-03-13 18:06 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Remove redirects from AJAX Search results (736 bytes, patch) 2007-07-16 22:17 UTC, Sergey Chernyshev	Details
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Description Sergey Chernyshev 2007-07-16 22:17:23 UTC

Created attachment 3920 [details]
Remove redirects from AJAX Search results

AJAX Search functionality seems to return redirects as part of it's results.

See attached patch that checks page_is_redirect column to be 0.

From the first glance it seems that putting this restriction after page_title LIKE ... is better because indexes are on page_namespace followed by page_title, but I'm not sure if they are used that much with LIKE. Someone with better knowledge of MW db indexes, please check.

Comment 1 Brion Vibber 2007-07-17 14:02:06 UTC

We want to include redirects; that's one of the reasons they exist.

Comment 2 Sergey Chernyshev 2007-07-17 14:11:38 UTC

Yes, I understand your point - every name is worth keeping. It seems to be a problem with some other installations though - with setups where there are many misspelling redirects or other non-essential ones.

Maybe it should be configurable.

Comment 3 Aryeh Gregor (not reading bugmail, please e-mail directly) 2007-07-17 16:23:45 UTC

Misspelling redirects are there for a reason too.  If someone quickly types, on Wiktionary, "superce", then pauses, they should get "supercede" as an option even if it's a redirect to "supersede".  Because otherwise they'll say, hey, what's with this stupid dictionary not having the word I want?  Obviously that's just an example, but you see the point, I think.

Comment 4 Sergey Chernyshev 2007-07-17 16:30:22 UTC

Yes, exactly. For some projects it makes sense, but it doesn't for others. Check how many JRR Tolkiens are out there - maybe showing all of them doesn't make sense. Regular search on Wikipedia doesn't show them (but if user typed Tolkein, then it'll show Tolkien) it means that there are reasons for not showing redirects in search results on some projects.

I propose to have it configurable and I can probably create a patch for that.

Comment 5 Brion Vibber 2007-07-17 16:59:33 UTC

The ideal behavior in most cases would likely be to list the original in the result (perhaps with a little note that it was found via a redirect) -- and to only return _one_ result, rather than multiple matching redirects.

Comment 6 Sergey Chernyshev 2007-07-17 17:15:43 UTC

Yes, sounds reasonable. I'll see if I can do that.

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