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Icelandic wikipedia search does not work for querys with spaces.

Posted by Ingvi on Mar 09, 2011

web.wikipedia.search fails to return anything for search strings that contain a whitespace if the language is set to 'is'.

Example - This does not find anything, but the article does exist:

web.wikipedia.search("Haraldur Hamar Thorsteinsson", language='is')
No problems with single word queries or when using language='en'.


 
Posted by Ingvi on Mar 09, 2011

Forgot to mention, I'm using version 1.9.4.3-1 from the python-nodebox-web package on Ubuntu Karmic, running Python 2.6.4.


Posted by Josh Caswell on Mar 09, 2011

It seems that even though the web library documentation says case-insensitive search is better, Wikipedia prefers case-sensitive. (This is also true for the English searches I just tried.) Wikipedia may have changed their search routine since the NB web library was written. Try your searches with the extra argument:

web.wikipedia.search("Haraldur Hamar Thorsteinsson", language='is', 
case_sensitive=True)


Posted by Ingvi on Mar 10, 2011

Yes, this it works with case_sensitive=True. Thank you.

And interestingly even with case_sensitive turned on it still finds matches for querys where the case does not match, but i'm not complaining.