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Author search results pages show many more works per author than there actually are #9256

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stopregionblocking opened this issue May 10, 2024 · 2 comments
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Author search results pages show many more works per author than there actually are #9256

stopregionblocking opened this issue May 10, 2024 · 2 comments
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Lead: @cdrini Issues overseen by Drini (Staff: Team Lead & Solr, Library Explorer, i18n) [managed] Needs: Investigation This issue/PR needs a root-cause analysis to determine a solution. [managed] Needs: Triage This issue needs triage. The team needs to decide who should own it, what to do, by when. [managed] Theme: Search Issues related to search UI and backend. [managed] Type: Bug Something isn't working. [managed]

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Problem

Search results for authors don't always show accurate numbers of works, but recently they frequently seem to be several times higher than the actual number of works.

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Relevant URL(s)

Sample searches:
https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=jeeves
https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=jarid
https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=kom%27boa
https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=bishara

Reproducing the bug

  1. Search for an author
  2. Observe the number of works attributed on the author search result page
  3. Observe the number of works attributed on the author page
  • Expected behavior:
  • Actual behavior:

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  • Browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, etc):
  • OS (Windows, Mac, etc):
  • Logged in (Y/N): Y
  • Environment (prod, dev, local): prod

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@stopregionblocking stopregionblocking added Needs: Lead Needs: Triage This issue needs triage. The team needs to decide who should own it, what to do, by when. [managed] Type: Bug Something isn't working. [managed] labels May 10, 2024
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jchefdeville commented May 12, 2024 •
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Hi
I wrote a message an "Gitter". I wanted to reproduce this issue, but I can't do it on localhost. I don't have any results :(
Can anyone help me to contribute ?

@scottbarnes
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@jchefdeville, I can't speak to reproducibility, but in terms of finding results, the following may show some authors: http://localhost:8080/search/authors?q=*&mode=everything

@mekarpeles mekarpeles added Theme: Search Issues related to search UI and backend. [managed] Priority: 3 Issues that we can consider at our leisure. [managed] Needs: Investigation This issue/PR needs a root-cause analysis to determine a solution. [managed] Lead: @cdrini Issues overseen by Drini (Staff: Team Lead & Solr, Library Explorer, i18n) [managed] Needs: Triage This issue needs triage. The team needs to decide who should own it, what to do, by when. [managed] and removed Needs: Triage This issue needs triage. The team needs to decide who should own it, what to do, by when. [managed] Needs: Lead Priority: 3 Issues that we can consider at our leisure. [managed] labels May 13, 2024
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