Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [MediaWiki-l] An "advanced search" page for CirrusSearch?

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Erik Bernhardson < ebernhard...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > We added a help link to Special:Search > > Cool! It's blank on mediawiki.org , it seems just an admin decision to add MediaWiki:search-summary on mw.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [MediaWiki-l] An "advanced search" page for CirrusSearch?

With my Search team hat on, I really love this idea. It'd be great to pair it with a simplification of the 'usual' search interface - I share Isarra's feelings on namespace search being pretty ham-fisted, and as time gets on find the many-element tickboxes that control it a painful UI element. On

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [MediaWiki-l] An "advanced search" page for CirrusSearch?

I've thought several times before that CirrusSearch has plenty of advanced syntax, and almost no-one knows about they exist. We added a help link to Special:Search but this help link is per wiki, and I don't think any of the wikis Help:Searching pages even includes the cirrus syntax. On enwiki at l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [MediaWiki-l] An "advanced search" page for CirrusSearch?

On 06/10/15 17:12, Daniel Barrett wrote: MZMcBride writes: It also seems worthwhile to note that "Special:Search" already has an advanced profile/tab where users can select arbitrary namespaces to search. Technically that is true, but I suspect that 95% of the time, 95% of users care only abou

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [MediaWiki-l] An "advanced search" page for CirrusSearch?

MZMcBride writes: >It also seems worthwhile to note that "Special:Search" already has an >advanced profile/tab where users can select arbitrary namespaces to search. Technically that is true, but I suspect that 95% of the time, 95% of users care only about the main namespace. Filter by category,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [MediaWiki-l] An "advanced search" page for CirrusSearch?

Brian Wolff wrote: >See also https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T23988 This is a rare case where I think we could potentially take a lesson from Gerrit's user interface: . It also seems worthwhile to note that "Special:Search" already has an advanced prof

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [MediaWiki-l] An "advanced search" page for CirrusSearch?

I once tried doing something like that in js. But for the use case I was trying to do, it was very limited by a bug in Cirrus where you can't OR operators with incategory:. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?withJS=MediaWiki:Gadget-advanced-search.js See also https://phabricator.wik

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [MediaWiki-l] An "advanced search" page for CirrusSearch?

This strikes me as a rather good idea, but I don't really know that much about cirrussearch in the first place. Anyone know, or have any thoughts on this? Forwarded Message Subject:[MediaWiki-l] An "advanced search" page for CirrusSearch? Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 14:12