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 >> [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> discovery mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery >> > > > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > >
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