Last modified: 2014-07-30 20:54:07 UTC
Steps to reproduce: 1. Go to Page settings to create a redirect on the English Wikipedia. 2. Type "foo" (an actual article—well, a redirect to an actual article about metasyntactic variables) in the field. 3. Look at the search results, which are all about football (plus one for [[Foot (length)]] and one for the US FDA). Think, "I must need to scroll down past all of this sports stuff"... but it doesn't scroll. If you click on any of these items, then your correct link to "Foo" gets replaced by whatever was highlighted. It turns out that you can actually get the link to "Foo", by clicking on any place outside the dialog box (to make the search results go away) and then clicking on "Apply changes", but this is really Not Good. To make things worse, due to bug 61861, you can't see what actually happened without either going to Review your changes or saving the page.
Clarification: the list of links does scroll, it's just that there's only 10(?) of them and Foo isn't among them, even though it exists. This is because MWTitleInputWidget, unlike MWLinkTargetInputWidget, does not reserve a special space for the title you typed. Instead, we assume that searching for pages whose names start with "Foo" will always return "Foo" as the first result, but that doesn't happen in practice because of a bug in the search system (I've also noticed these results being out of alphabetical order). There's a bug... somewhere where we track things that go wrong because opensearch is unhelpful.
Yeah, this is bug 54361. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 54361 ***
