Interestingly there are results for "Request renaming of an image" or "rAbort".

I came here to file a new request, and I am quite surprised to see that nobody really cares about such a major feature being broken.
Another example. This search http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=chimurenga&title=Special%3ASearch does not return http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lettera27_-_Rucera_Seethal_(Chimurenga_magazine_staff).jpg or http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lettera27_-_Chairmaine_(Chimurenga_magazine).jpg .
As suggested by another user at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Is_there_something_wrong_with_the_search_engine.3F , a Google search instead returns 58 more results.
Too bad you can not use an external search to perform mass operations such as adding or removing categories. I am part of a GLAM team. Search is vital for us as well.

At the Commons Village Pump thread linked in the previous message:
*http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Is_there_something_wrong_with_the_search_engine.3F

LX suggests: "since we can't trust files to be indexed on upload, we should probably have a scheduled low-priority process to rebuild the index periodically."

ForoaW wrote:

Related problems/reports:

• [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6090]
• [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35691]
• [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30595]

(In reply to comment #0)

A search for Dateiverschieber
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.
php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&search=Dateiverschieber&fulltext=
Search&ns8=1&redirs=1&profile=advanced
should find [[commons:MediaWiki:RenameRequest.js]]

But it does not.

Confirming for this example.

This results in VisualEditor returning empty searches even when the exact, complete file name is given as the search term.

At Commons' own Special:Search, searching for the exact, complete file name produces self-contradictory results:

There were no results matching the query.
There is a page named "File:GreatNurse.jpeg" on this wiki

Verified that this bug no longer exists in CirrusSearch, as the third search result for that query for me is RenameRequest.js. As we're migrating from Lucene to CirrusSearch, I'm closing this bug as RESOLVED WONTFIX.