On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 15:11, Svip <svi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16 May 2010 14:06, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > >> But the introduction of the new search box that practically can't >> search, was not part of the beta and it was a complete surprise. Am i >> badly mistaken? > > After my own attempts, I cannot find any issues with the search box. > Could you describe your problems more accurately? Or better yet, file > a bug report about it on https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/
In Vector, search for "begin". You'll get to the page "Begin". There's no way to actually search Wikipedia for the word "begin" using this search box. There are dozens of comments about it at [[Wikipedia:User experience feedback]] and [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)]]. But that's the technical side. In fact, most of the Usability team's work has been fantastic. The problem is the decision making. IIRC, when adding a page to the watchlist became AJAX-y two or three years ago, it was announced to the community some time before it was enabled - and that was a rather small change. This time, however, i don't remember any announcement about the new search box and the collapsible sidebar. Such an announcement would allow testing and testing would likely prevent the worst bugs. So please, in the future, don't test major features just in the labs. Please allow the wide community to test them before they are deployed. -- אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי Amir Elisha Aharoni http://aharoni.wordpress.com "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l