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Searching topics
How live Wikimedia search behaves, including cancellation and empty states.
Search behaviour
- Typing waits about 320 milliseconds before requesting results.
- A new query cancels the previous browser request.
- The server validates query length and language codes.
- Upstream requests use a descriptive Novus Learn User-Agent, bounded retries, caching, and rate-limit handling.
No results
Try a broader phrase, another spelling, or a different language edition. Novus Learn does not inject fictional fallback results.
Offline or throttled
Offline search shows a local state before making a request. A 429 response reports Wikimedia's requested wait time when provided. Saved local topics remain available offline as shortcuts, but opening uncached source content still needs a connection.