https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42423
--- Comment #31 from Foroa <[email protected]> --- The basic problem is that search fails to return search results in a random way without indication that it fails; we know that it fails only because there are no results and because we know that there should be results. I got it this morning a couple of times on Commons. In general, redoing the same search (or a couple of times) one or more seconds later finally returns some results. So the basic problem is that the service is not reliable and does not report that there is a problem. Why I proposed on another bug report to return at least a status and the date of the search database update (which is another source of frustration as it looks as if it takes between 1 and 5 days before new files are included in the search database). As test procedure, one could easily make a script that uses as search string the name of a random category (or a word of it) and searches in files, galleries and categories: each search should yield some results. Obviously, such tests should be done on en:wiki (that contains the largest volume of data) or Commons (that probably has the most items in its database). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
