On 26-02-2003, Erik Moeller wrote thusly :
> > Hello all,
> > Is this the expected behaviour of the "Go" function (next to "Search") that
> > when I put in the box "Domenico" there's "Domenico Cimarosa" page displayed
> > ?
> > This seems to happen consistently so it might be designed that way.
> well, I haven't designed it specifically with Domenico Cimarosa in mind
> ;-), but here's how it works:
>
> 1) Try a case-sensitive (exact) match (but first
> letter always upper case, as is the Wikipedia standard).
> If there's a match, view it and abort.
> 2) Try some case variations: all words upper case, capitalized
> etc. If there's a match, view it and abort.
> 3) Try an article title search, if there are matches, view
> the first article that matches (which is random) and
> abort.
> 4) Try a full text search.
>
> So if there was an article "Domenico", it would view that. There isn't,
> however, and if you search for "Domenico", you will get the following
> results:
>
> Article title matches
>
> 1. Domenico Cimarosa (5394 bytes)
> '''Domenico Cimarosa''', [[Aversa]] near [[Naples]] [[1749]] ...
> 2. Domenico Alberti (1727 bytes)
> '''Domenico Alberti''' (around [[1710]] - [[1740]]) was an [.[....
> 3. Domenico Scarlatti (2427 bytes)
> '''Domenico Scarlatti''' ([[October 26]], [[1685]] in [[Naple...
>
> As you can see, Domenico Cimarosa is the first one that comes up, because
> it is stored first in the CUR table. This is why it's also the one you see
> when you "Go" to Domenico, because there's no exact match.
>
> I will probably improve the behavior regarding namespaces -- it currently
> views whatever is stored first, even if that's a talk page; it should only
> view the talk page if there's no corresponding subject page, though.
Hi Erik,
This behaviour is quite sensible but perhaps I wasn't prepared that.
I thought it would redirect me to the search results if there's no
exact or approximate hits.
Thanks for your answer,
Regards,
Kpjas.