On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Thad Guidry <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not able to successfully get results on topics that have diacritics in > their label while logged in and searching Wikidata. > > Searching for "Marc Marquez" this morning did not show any results. I began > to create an entry for this motorcycle road racer and later discovered that > he already had an entry. I noticed that the "Also known as" for English > only had a diacritic label "Marc Márquez i Alentà ". I then added another > "Also known as" Marc Marquez and this resolved the problem of finding the > correct original topic. I merged my erroneous new topic into the original > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40615 > > Is there an effort already in progress to fix diacritic insensitive search > or investigate why it might not be working for logged in English users ? > > I only found this older Phabricator issue for Autocomplete during data > entry, and not main search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T49114 > > -Thad > +ThadGuidry
Hi Thad, The entity selector can't deal with it at the moment. However Special:Search can. You get there for example when selecting "more" in the entity selector at the top. To fix the entity selector properly we need to switch it to using Elastic Search as the backend. The ticket for that is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143706 Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech
