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Sort results by date
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Author: matthew.britton

Description:
It would be nice to be able to sort search results by date, as well as by 'relevance'.


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
See Also:
T40403: Sortable search results

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Reference
bz16237

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 10:21 PM
bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Search.
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What date? Last updated? Page creation?

matthew.britton wrote:

Last updated. (Which is already displayed next to search results, so I'm assuming sorting on it before returning the results would be feasible).

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This functionality is requested in the 2017 community wish list: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Search#Order_search_results_by_date_of_last_edit_or_alphabetically and has a workaround for this in the comments.

Sorting functionality deployed and appears to be returning correct results now. Some followup will be needed for UI elements, probably T197525

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