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--- Comment #3 from PiRSquared17 pirsquare...@gmail.com ---
Brion, do you still think this is a good idea for nonexistent users? Sometimes
we want to search for text in the user namespace, not for a page with that
exact title.
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You are
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--- Comment #4 from Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org ---
In that case you'd need to go to the search page and explicitly enable 'User'
in the searched namespaces, or else use some kind of magic indicator of which
namespace you want to search in
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--- Comment #5 from Nik Everett neverett+bugzi...@wikimedia.org ---
The magic indicator that you are looking for things in the user namespace is to
prefix the search with user:.
PiRSquared, I know it isn't a great answer but you can skip the
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--- Comment #1 from Jesús Martínez Novo (Ciencia Al Poder)
martinezn...@gmail.com ---
Yeah, I suggested that Bug 45255 may be the responsible of this, if
non-existent user pages are now returning 200 responses instead of 404, maybe
the search
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