[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

--- Comment #14 from Joonas Kylmälä <joonas.kylmala at helsinki.fi> ---
Ok, so we all agree having auto-completion would be a great and much wanted
feature to have. I still think we should not rush implementing this using the
Wikipedia API because it seems like it would not be the ideal solution for many
users, if not for all them. Instead the database customized search results
using for example Elasticsearch's features seems to be the ideal solution here.
Why I think not to rush this, and not to go with Wikipedia suggestions:

 - Double the maintenance work when Wikipedia and Elasticsearch based
implementations are both implemented
 - The deprecation of Wikipedia implementation will take probably few releases
to make sure everybody has stopped using it and switches to Elasticsearch
implementation. Meaning the feature still has to be maintained all this time.

On a side note: I couldn't find any guidelines for deprecating features in
Koha. There are already some cases I think doing just that would help the Koha
users because for example the local hold groups feature with correct
circulation rules could probably replace the system preference
OPACHoldsIfAvailableAtPickup.

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