https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24282
Summary: SimpleSearch highlight changes suggestions
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: any
Platform: All
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(t
echnical)#Vector_Search_Problem
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Normal
Component: UsabilityInitiative
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
"When I search for certain items, it seems that the search bar brings up
strange results. For instance, searching "Doctor Who (" turns the "(" into an
"a"
([http://i712.photobucket.com/albums/ww122/fifteenstep/wikisearchproblem.png an
example here in this segment of a screen cap]) and a search for "Doctor Who h"
turns the "h" into an ":" (i'm using Doctor Who examples because that's what I
was indeed looking for when I discovered this). I get the bug with other
searches (like, "Star Trek o") or when I search for a single word and a space
(like "Star " turns "Starting Pitcher" into "Star ing Pitcher" and "Starbucks"
into "Star ucks" and "Life " turns "Life Imprisonment" into
"Lifebimprisonment"). In fact, I just noticed this now, but searching for
"life" then two spaces turns the searches into "Lifebo+(rest of search result
phrase beginning with "Life"), three spaces turns the search to "Lifeboa+(rest
of search result phrase beginning with "Life"), eg "Lifeboaimprisonment", and
so on until "Life+17 spaces" full reveals "Lifeboat (shipboard)" over the
search results. I get the same thing if I search words like "time", "star",
"rose" and "royal" and a bunch of spaces or any spaces (even sometimes one)."
This is confirmed with Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Firefox 3.3.6 and 3.3.7.
Proactively assigning this to adam, who implemented this as far as I know.
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