In the Russian Wikipedia I write "Шмулевич" in the search box and one of the completions is "Шмулевич, Авраам". That article was deleted in 2011, so it shouldn't appear there. I guess that the index of pages to autocomplete is stale, or something along these lines.
Version: wmf-deployment
Severity: normal
Does the article show up in Cirrus? I imagine not. If so I'm inclined to WONTFIX this.
(In reply to Chad H. from comment #1)
Does the article show up in Cirrus?
If that means https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search&srbackend=CirrusSearch then yes, the deleted article is still proposed as a search dropdown when entering Шмулевич and choosing it provides the error
Создать страницу «Шмулевич, Авраам»
(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #2)
(In reply to Chad H. from comment #1)
Does the article show up in Cirrus?
If that means
https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search&srbackend=CirrusSearch then yes,
the deleted article is still proposed as a search dropdown when entering
Шмулевич and choosing it provides the error
Создать страницу «Шмулевич, Авраам»
Yep - it still appears in auto-complete with &srbackend=CirrusSearch.
The prefix suggestions don't respect srbackend, can you try enabling it as a Beta Feature and try again?
(In reply to Chad H. from comment #4)
The prefix suggestions don't respect srbackend, can you try enabling it as a
Beta Feature and try again?
Tried. Still happens.
(That is: it could very will still be broken in lsearchd but it's very obvious it's not a problem in Cirrus anymore)