Search Platform/Weekly Updates/2025-09-12
Highlights
Please note that TheDJ groomed our backlog and pulled out quite a few very old tickets (10+ years). Grooming was motivated by work on MySQL search, which is outside our team's scope. Of those within our scope, many have been resolved already over the years.
Shipped: did we release anything this week?
- T403212 Support \r, \n, \t, and \uNNNN in insource and intitle queries (Open)
- T402858 Create new Cirrus class with Russian and Hebrew DWIM mappings (Open)
- T387569 Update Elastic puppet code to filter LVS config based on cluster membership (Resolved)
- T135280 insource: queries can't search for the return character (Resolved)
- T86854 Better handle natural language questions in search (Resolved)
- T402220 Sudachi analysis chain fails on long emoji sequence (In Progress)
- T403749 Install new wmf-opensearch-search-plugins package/roll-restart CirrusSearch clusters (Resolved)
Blockers: does this essential workstream have any unresolved blockers or dependencies? is anything preventing us from doing our work?
N/A
Lessons learned: Did we learn anything in the course of doing this work that can be applied to other work?
N/A
Community collab: Did we do anything in this essential workstream this week in collaboration with the community or because the community asked us to?
N/A
What else was accomplished in this essential workstream this week?
- T366904 Improve mysql search for files (Resolved)
- T318180 Line width of search results in Minerva too wide (due to mediawiki.special.search.styles hardcoding 50em width) (Resolved)
- T308687 Special:BannerLoader and Special:BannerRandom show up in search suggestions on meta.wikimedia.org (Resolved)
- T287943 Search field position too low on te.wikipedia; overlaps with content area (Resolved)
- T84856 Searching for "File:" shows no results, yet a result count is shown (Resolved)
- T73977 Search: Ignore namespace prefix and truncate left (Resolved)
- T71063 AJAX search suggestion shows non-existent page "Meta:Speedy Deletions" on meta.wikimedia.org (Resolved)
- T69920 Database Error when searching for term which includes parenthesis characters (Resolved)
- T67753 Provide way to override the behavior of default search box (Resolved)
- T65629 Allow adding wiki logos to interwiki search results boxes (Resolved)
- T61627 incomplete search results for phrase enclosed in double quotes (Resolved)
- T61082 Searching for userpages of nonexistent users (or users with no userpage) should not forward you to their userpage with &go=Go (Resolved)
- T94830 Track down missing regex search results on commons (Resolved)
- T51466 Display category list for items in search results (Resolved)
- T46704 Automatically suggest disambiguation pages (Declined)
- T31890 Cannot search for parser functions (like #ask, #ifexist, etc) due to # (Resolved)
- T25108 SearchHighlighter::highlightSimple() doesn't escape regex chars in input, leads to PHP errors about unbalanced ( ) (Resolved)
- T24774 Should be possible to customize the search profiles. (Resolved)
- T23555 Special:Log should support keyword (or non-exact title) search (Resolved)
- T23299 Search results link jump to search term on page (Resolved)
- T20181 Prune unneeded redirects from SimpleSearch's autosuggest dropdown (Resolved)
- T58830 Provide API access for search terms which do not yield title or fulltext results (Resolved)
- T39223 Add ability to restrict number of search terms (Resolved)
- T102400 Search does not ignore soft hyphens (U+00AD, ) (Resolved)
- T25675 Back-button script blocks normal browser behaviour (Resolved)
- T23019 "Did you mean..." doesn't shows "Special" for the namespace -1 (Resolved)
- T96577 Search settings save option needs to be discoverable (Resolved)
- T8653 Highlight search terms when viewing pages from search results (Resolved)
- T110577 Special:Search/<page> should search instead of redirecting to an inexistent page (Resolved)
- T32954 mwsuggest should support a .mw-search classname instead of hardcoded ids (Resolved)