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VisualEditor: Suggestion lists (of templates/links/categories/etc.) differ over time with the same input (e.g. between browsers/users)
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Description

In Chrome, edit any page in https://test2.wikipedia.org

Click Transclusion, type 's' into input box.
Result is a list of suggestions that begin with "Smaller" and "Sectstub"

In Firefox, edit any page in https://test2.wikipedia.org

Click Transclusion, type 's' into input box.
Result is a list of suggestions that begin with "Succession box" and "South America"

This suggests that at least one list of Template suggestions is absolutely incorrect.


Version: unspecified
Severity: minor
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58406

Details

Reference
bz53231

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 2:11 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz53231.

This is caused by the search back end that supplies the suggestions; I don't think it alters by user/browser so much as over time (though it's cached after the first request for a bit). Not sure if this is a "bug" per se…

  • Bug 70219 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Jdforrester-WMF set Security to None.