The patch implementing this functionality <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/230646/> was just merged. We therefore expect that this will therefore go out to production next week with the normal MediaWiki deployment train.
Dan On 10 August 2015 at 14:36, Dan Garry <dga...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello! > > The Search Team in the Discovery Department is implementing a maximum > search query length <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107947>. There > are two main reasons to do this: > > 1. Extremely long queries are almost always gibberish from things like > malfunctioning scrapers. These queries skew our statistics about the > usefulness of our search. Implementing a limit will reduce the magnitude of > skew. > 2. Extremely long queries have a disproportionate impact on > performance. On its own this isn't enough, but considering point 1 above, > limiting them is unlikely to impact any actual users. Implementing a limit > will improve performance. > > We've chosen a hard limit of 300 characters. If your query exceeds this, > you will be told that your query exceeds the maximum length. Based on our > analysis of typical query lengths > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107947#1515387>, this change should > impact almost nobody. If you think you'll be adversely affected, please > reach out to us and we'll work with you to figure something out. > > Thanks! > > Dan > > -- > Dan Garry > Lead Product Manager, Discovery > Wikimedia Foundation > -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
