https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57318
Web browser: Firefox
Bug ID: 57318
Summary: Search for %s opens Main Page
Product: MediaWiki
Version: 1.23-git
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Keywords: patch
Severity: minor
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Search
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
Mobile Platform: ---
Created attachment 13854
--> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=13854&action=edit
patch for includes/specials/SpecialSearch.php
In Mozilla Firefox you can create a "smart keyword" when you make a right-click
to search field and select "Add a Keyword for this Search...". Then you can
create a new bookmark with an keyword.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address-bar
When you do this for enwiki you create a bookmark to the URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%s&title=Special%3ASearch
With the keyword "wp" you can enter "wp foo" then the "%s" gets substituted by
"foo" and the URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=foo&title=Special%3ASearch gets
loaded. The search redirects (302) to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo and
shows the article [[Foobar]] because [[Foo]] is a redirect to [[Foobar]].
When you open the keyword without an search string "wp" the Firefox opens the
URL https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=&title=Special%3ASearch which
is a empty search page.
But when you open this bookmark as normal bookmark then the Firefox opens the
URL https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%s&title=Special%3ASearch and
opens the article [[%s]]. When [[%s]] doesn't exist a search result page for
search string "%s" is shown.
On many projects there exist a redirect from [[%s]] to the Main Page of the
project so these users gets redirected to a useful page. But this redirect is
workaround. This workaround has also the disadvantage that the Main Page is
shown on a strange URL.
I suggest to create a workaround in MediaWiki to catch this request:
When [[%s]] is not existent then
?search=%s&title=Special%3ASearch
redirects to the Main Page.
When [[%s]] is not existent then
?search=%s&title=Special%3ASearch&fulltext=Search
shows a search result page to the search string "%s"
When [[%s]] exists then
?search=%s&title=Special%3ASearch
redirects to this articel [[%s]]
When [[%s]] exists then
?search=%s&title=Special%3ASearch&fulltext=Search
shows a search result page to the search string "%s"
I created a patch with this behavior.
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