cc'd to lists that people read On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > I sincerely hate to sound repetitive and annoying, but since the switch to > Vector in en.wikipedia it's impossible to run a full-text search of > Wikipedia using the search box if there's an article by the same name. > > The "Search" button is gone, because it was supposed to be possible to run a > full-text search in the redesigned search box without that button, but > apparently this doesn't actually work. It's only possible to run a full-text > search by switching back to Monobook or by manually going to Special:Search > (there's no link to it anywhere). > > So basically, for five days already it's practically impossible to search > for information within Wikipedia. Read this again: it's impossible to search > Wikipedia. Am i crazy if i think that this is a very severe problem? > > This is reported as a bug: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23558 > > The right thing to do is to restore the go and search buttons immediately > and consider reintroducing the new search box after it has been thoroughly > tested. Is there any reason not to do this? > > -- > אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > Amir Elisha Aharoni > > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > > "We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace." - T. Moore > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia-l mailing list > wikipedi...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l >
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