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Bug 18401 - Search should lead to similar pages
Search should lead to similar pages
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Search (Other open bugs)
unspecified
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: Low enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2009-04-08 05:31 UTC by Badam
Modified: 2014-11-15 12:03 UTC (History)
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Description Badam 2009-04-08 05:31:09 UTC
I dont how to put it in simple terms, but here is what happened.
As usual i was reading a wiki article, on Video Graphics Array (VGA) connector.
I wanted to see what is the difference between VGA and DVI.
But when i entered DVI in search box it led to a  Disambiguation page instead of going to
the DVI connector.
Is it ok to handle this as a internal link in wiki article would be handled.
i.e., go to directly the DVI connector page instead of disambiguation page.

Just a thought.

You are doing a great job.

Thanks,
Badam
Comment 1 Niklas Laxström 2009-04-27 07:51:50 UTC
The link should obviously be fixed. The new search could be used to guess the intended one, but I'm not sure if it worth it.
Comment 2 Andre Klapper 2014-10-26 14:50:03 UTC
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DVI&redirect=no redirects to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface nowadays.

Was this meant as a proposal to gather items listed on a disambiguation page and display them as proposals in the dropdown after entering a search term (which would lead to a disambiguation page) in the Search field in the upper corner?
Not entirely clear to me; might need additional API.
Comment 3 Andre Klapper 2014-11-15 12:03:05 UTC
Badam: Please answer comment 2.

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