Wikimedia Search Platform/Serbian Search Update

An important update to search is coming in the next few weeks to wiki projects in Serbian. We will be deploying new language processing that will improve search on Serbian wikis, including:

- Transliteration, so that searching for either of астрономија or astronomija will find the other.

- Stemming, which links related forms of a word, so that searching for астрономија, астрономије, астрономији, or астрономију will find the others.

- Better handling of diacritics, particularly those used as a guide to pronunciation, so that searching for астроно̀мија or астрономија will find the other. Important Serbian characters (đ, ž, ć, č, and š) will be unchanged.

- You can still search for exact words by using quotes, so that "астрономија" will not match astronomija, астрономије, or астроно̀мија.

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An important update to search is coming in the next few weeks to wiki projects in Serbian. Searching for Cyrillic or Latin variants of a word will find the other variant, and different grammatical forms of a word will also be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki.