Topic on Help talk:CirrusSearch

Tracked in Bugzilla
Bug 69766

With srwhat = nearmatch,

• This is a query for биология, it does find биология.
• This is a query for биологии, it does not find биология.

Without specifying srwhat,

• the first query also finds the correct article, but
• the second query returns garbage such as Институт биологии внутренних вод имени И. Д. Папанина РАН (it misses the relevant item).

Please help, this is needed for a wikilinker script as you're deprecating Lucene Search. It worked better:

• биологии = биология
• биология = биология

P.S. A filed this as a bug and linked it here.

P.P.S. This javascript thingy should let you read the ugly unicode things the API outputs.