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Search results should show redirect targets rather than redirects
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When you search for 'barack obama' (sic) on mobile, the first result is 'Barack obama', and the second result is 'Barack Obama'. The former is a redirect to the latter and should be omitted from the results for obvious reasons.


Version: unspecified
Severity: normal

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Reference
bz73532

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:49 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz73532.
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bingle-admin wrote:

Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Trello card https://trello.com/c/gB6BBM1V

Change 174308 had a related patch set uploaded by Bmansurov:
Show redirect targets in search results.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/174308

It looks like this is the default behavior for Desktop too. This bug should be fixed at the API level (CirrusSearch).

Change 174308 abandoned by Bmansurov:
Show redirect targets in search results.

Reason:
Needs to be fixed at the API level

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/174308

Change 174308 restored by Bmansurov:
Show redirect targets in search results.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/174308