A follow-up patch <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/231437/> which increases the limit to 2,500 was merged; this means the character limit will be 2,500 characters instead of 300 characters when it goes into production next week. I expect that this limit will be reset back to 300 within a few weeks. Please see the associated Phabricator task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107947> for more information.
Dan On 11 August 2015 at 12:54, Dan Garry <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 > -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
