User blog comment:Dopp/Updates to How We Search/@comment-13301-20120504202056/@comment-13301-20120505100142



I've done that and doesn't work. Look at the screenshot. The URL determines that I used the "Go" button (it's called "Ir" in Spanish).

Note that you should have reverted back the change in the search parameters and instead perform the search results only if the fulltext parameter has been sent to the query. That's the default MediaWiki behavior and the change for oasis would have been as simple as adding a hidden input field with the name fulltext. That way in Oasis the search results page would come always (and users would be able to delete that input with personal JS to disable that).

Changing the core MediaWiki functionality to affect all search methods and targeting the default behavior only to some hardcoded parameters is a very bad coding practice and it will require a large and unnecessary time for your engineers to constantly maintain this on every MediaWiki upgrade. That's probably the reason that every Technical Update introduces new unexpected results and the poor quality control of the tech team.

Whoever made that decision should probably learn how to peroperly do things before putting his/her hands in a piece of code. The entire Wikia community would be much appreciated.