[Koha-bugs] [Bug 25532] Add a wikipedia-style search suggestion feature to the OPAC

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25532

David Roberts <david.roberts at ptfs-europe.com> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from David Roberts <david.roberts at ptfs-europe.com> ---
(In reply to Owen Leonard from comment #4)
> This is really interesting, and works well. However, I'm concerned about the
> possibility of confusion on the part of the user.
> 
> My assumption is that if a user is familiar with how autocomplete works,
> they will assume that autocomplete is pulling from a list of existing
> values. I think it will be confusing for a patron to select from the
> suggested Wikipedia terms only to find that nothing in the catalog matches.
> 
> It's nonsensical to see in the suggestions an entry like "Harry Potter and
> the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (disambiguation)."
> 
> A partial solution might be to add more explicit labeling to the
> autocomplete. Something like, "Search terms by Wikipedia" or something like
> that. I would suggest that the preference be renamed as well to something
> like "OPACWikipediaSearchSuggestions."

I'd go along with that - I had trouble thinking what to call this feature when
I was writing it! I'll change the naming.

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