Editing User talk:Jean Abou Samra (section)

== Search issues ==

Jean,

To get nice snippet headings in the documentation, we often use non-letter stuff like opening and closing quotes in Wiki page titles.  However, as I've found out recently, this severely hampers searching.  For example, the snippet [[Using \arpeggioBracket to make divisi more visible]] cannot be immediately found by entering “Using arpeggioBracket” (i.e., without the backslash) into the search field.

I now wonder whether the Wiki can be configured to ignore quote characters and the like in the search.  If this is not possible, I have to add redirections for all articles with such characters in its name.  It's not a big deal since it can be done programmatically, however, not needing this would be a better solution. -- [[User:Lemzwerg|Lemzwerg]] ([[User talk:Lemzwerg|talk]]) 13:55, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

:AFAIU the autocompletion just matches by title prefix (to be clear, this is not about the search results page you get if you press Enter, which is much more complete). I think it's not too bad, not sure if there's any way to change it. [[User:Jean Abou Samra|Jean Abou Samra]] ([[User talk:Jean Abou Samra|talk]]) 14:13, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
::OK, thanks.  What do you think of installing the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CirrusSearch Cirrus search extension]?  It seems that Wikimedia is using this by default, and it comes with fuzzy search support, AFAICS. -- [[User:Lemzwerg|Lemzwerg]] ([[User talk:Lemzwerg|talk]]) 14:47, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
:::It looks like there is no opensearch package in Fedora, and honestly I'm not too keen on setting up a tool as large and complex as MediaWiki itself requiring its own systemd services and networks ports and so on if it's only for the sake of this autocompletion… [[User:Jean Abou Samra|Jean Abou Samra]] ([[User talk:Jean Abou Samra|talk]]) 18:20, 12 December 2025 (UTC)