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Search function of Chinese (zh) Wikipedia is too weak
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Author: jack-xuetianxiang

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Hello, I am a user of Chinese Wikipedia and I find that the search function of Chinese Wikipedia is too weak. For example, when I type "南京水魔方", it can find nothing ([https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%E5%8D%97%E4%BA%AC%E6%B0%B4%E9%AD%94%E6%96%B9&title=Special%3A%E6%90%9C%E7%B4%A2 see here]). In fact, I want a page called "南京欢乐水魔方水上主题乐园" and "南京水魔方" is its abbreviation. It's really inconvenient for users. In contrast, as another online encyclopedia, Baidu Baike has stronger search ability, when I type same word there, it can give me right result ([http://baike.baidu.com/search/none?word=%C4%CF%BE%A9%CB%AE%C4%A7%B7%BD&convertword=%C4%CF%BE%A9%CB%AE%C4%A7%B7%BD&flag=strong see here]). As a result, I think the search function of Chinese Wikipedia need to be improved. In addition, I don't know whether this problem can be found in other language Wikipedia, so please do some check as well.


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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 22 2014, 12:25 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz36860.

It's more or less an upstream issue unless we switch to another engine/plugin.

jack-xuetianxiang wrote:

It's nothing about my browser settings. This problem appears in every browser.

jack-xuetianxiang wrote:

I think this problem should be solved by Wikimedia instead of Wikipedia users.

(In reply to comment #3)

I think this problem should be solved by Wikimedia instead of Wikipedia users.

I'd say should be solved by Lucene devs.

CirrusSearch has much better support for non-English languages. Given that we're in the process of migrating from Lucene to CirrusSearch, I'm closing this as RESOLVED WONTFIX.

If you're still having issues with searching in a Chinese language in CirrusSearch, please do feel free to file a bug under MediaWiki extensions -> CirrusSearch.