[BUG] namespace search

Post by **Peter** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 6:27 pm

On the searchpage, searching in the namespace User don't work. It's just ignored or changed into Image.

Very weird. I haven't tried all spaces, but they do seem to work.

Post by **imslp** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:27 pm

Hmm... the search form is exhibiting weird behaviour. Searching the User: namespace actually worked if I click a bunch of other stuff (tried it with User, User_talk, IMSLP and IMSLP_talk), but not on its own. This is most possibly a Mediawiki bug, but has either been fixed on Wikipedia (which would be fast), or perhaps due to some server configuration on IMSLP's part. I will look into this

Post by **imslp** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:34 pm

After more research, apparently Mediawiki drops the first checked category regardless of what is checked. This is due to a server side URL rewriting issue, and I will look into it

In the meanwhile, you can simply change the question mark after Special:Search in the URL to an ampersand (&) and it will work correctly.