Make category search non case-sensitive and more user friendly

[misaochan]

Received a report from a 2.11 user on our FB page that category search is case-sensitive for her, which means that sometimes she'll type the right category in the search field but nothing will show up.

AFAIK the MW API that we use is inherently case-sensitive, but the upload wizard seems to be able to find a way around that and produces the same category suggestions regardless of case.

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Edit: Apart from the case sensitivity, the allcategories API also has a problem of doing a prefix match. This does not give a great UX. We should explore ways to fix this too.

[nicolas-raoul]

Maybe if we convert everything to lowercase then the server performs a non-case-sensitive search? That's just an hypothesis, I have not tried.

[misaochan]

@nicolas-raoul Possible! We'll try it out with a direct query first.

[ankit-kumar-dwivedi]

Can I take this issue?

[misaochan]

@ankit-kumar-dwivedi please feel free!

[kbhardwaj123]

@misaochan Is this issue free to be worked upon? if so can i take it?

[ankit-kumar-dwivedi]

Hey! Yes sure you should start working on it as I'm not working on it right now.

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[kbhardwaj123]

Thank you:)