Hopefully when the GUI is updated to make this kind of search easier for
users with lower skill levels, the syntax will become a non-issue.

Pine


On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Trey Jones <[email protected]> wrote:

> Cool—thanks, Stas!
>
> Trey Jones
> Software Engineer, Discovery
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Stas Malyshev <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> > Is Justin's suggestion of aliases feasible, so that "filetype:image" is
>> > the same as "filetype:bitmap"? there's still the question of what to map
>> > to what, but that seems like it would help if it's easy enough to
>> > implement. And of course a histogram of filetype:<x> would tell you what
>> > people are trying to use.
>> >
>> > But maybe adding aliases to reserve words is too messy.
>>
>> Created https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150887 for it. Using logs to
>> see what people are using with filetype: is a great idea too, we'd have
>> to wait for a month or so to gather data I assume.
>>
>> --
>> Stas Malyshev
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