User talk:TJones (WMF)/Notes/Survey of Regular Expression Searches

Interwiki links
The regex search for interwiki links seems rather innocuous (why are they even using a regex and not a literal insource search?). However, if it turned out to be very expensive we could always add another special page or API query from which to get such lists. I believe someone has already filed such a feature request. --Nemo 05:26, 31 May 2018 (UTC)


 * I don't think the interwiki links are necessarily a problem, though there are an awful lot of them! Regex search is "trigram accelerated" so it searches for results with obvious trigrams from the regex before doing the more costly regex search itself. So for  it finds pages with "Trey Jones (WMF) (talk) 19:04, 5 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks! --Nemo 19:19, 5 June 2018 (UTC)