https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61405
Bug ID: 61405
Summary: Providing more information in a search query (such as
word fragments) results in less accurate results
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: CirrusSearch
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
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Mobile Platform: ---
If I search for "Barack" on the English Wikipedia, [[Barack Obama]] is the
first result [1].
If I search for "Barack Ob" on the English Wikipedia, all of the search results
are totally irrelevant [2]. More accurately, there are a few relevant search
results in the list that are about Barack Obama, but the only reason they're
actually included is because they so happen to have the string "OB" in them as
an abbreviation for something else. That's a fluke more than anything else.
[1]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&search=Barack&fulltext=Search
[2]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&search=Barack+Ob&fulltext=Search
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