https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23558
Summary: Go and search button are not confusing
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: critical
Priority: Normal
Component: Vector Skin
AssignedTo: tpars...@wikimedia.org
ReportedBy: amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il
Erik Moeller (bug 577), user interface blogs and usability initiative test
subjects may claim contrarywise, but some people who edit Wikipedia think that
the Go and Search button are perfectly logical and useful and find it hard to
impossible to search Wikipedia without them. If the Holy Book of Vector says
that they must not exist, they can be disabled by default, but please let
editors and readers who happily used them for many years enable them as a
preference.
I am marking it "critical", because in the current state of affairs it is
completely impossible to search Wikipedia using the search box. Example: 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, except going to
Special:Search manually (there's no link to Special:Search anywhere).
So, until the search box can be used for searching, the Go and Search button
must be restored ASAP.
When the new search box with the AJAXy bells and whistles actually works as
designed, feel free to lower the priority.
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