Addshore added subscribers: MPhamWMF, Yair_rand. Addshore added a comment.
So right now the fact that the searchbox is only searching items is not good. This makes it hard to find lexeme,s project pages etc. So the current state is not ideal for us. We don't have any great ideas about ranking these different entity types together etc, and making sense of what users would end up seeing. (even along side regular pages). How do you find out if Tree the item should be ranked higher or lower than Tree the lexeme, or some other project page called Tree? If we figure out the answers to these questions then we could probably move toward making use of the new search UI for Wikidata / Wikibase and ditching the old thing.. The search team might have some thoughts on this? CC: @MPhamWMF There is quite a big difference in behaviour currently between what is served up through Special:Search and the entity suggester box for Wikidata right now This can be seen in the screenshot below: F34165916: image.png <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F34165916> Related would also be: - T194968: Enable search in all wikidata namespaces combined <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194968> - T190454: Display entity & article namespace completion search together <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190454> - T48251: [Task] Make search suggestions work for pages outside the main namespace on Wikidata <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T48251> A quote from that last ticket In T48251#1355685 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T48251#1355685>, @Yair_rand wrote: > Mixing together mainspace items and pages from other namespaces could result in some confusion. For example, if a user is searching for "Template:Support", there would be two items with that label, along with the local template itself titled "Template:Support". If these are to be mixed, there needs to be some way to clearly indicate whether a page is a Wikidata item or not. @Jdlrobson could you provide a screenshot of the look and feel of the new results view (or somewhere to see it) TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275251 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Addshore Cc: Yair_rand, MPhamWMF, ovasileva, Addshore, Lydia_Pintscher, Aklapper, Jdlrobson, Selby, caldera, maantietaja, Akuckartz, Demian, darthmon_wmde, WDoranWMF, holger.knust, EvanProdromou, DannyS712, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, pmiazga, LawExplorer, JJMC89, Iniquity, _jensen, rosalieper, Agabi10, Scott_WUaS, Pchelolo, Volker_E, Niedzielski, Izno, abian, Wikidata-bugs, aude, GWicke, Dinoguy1000, Mbch331, Jay8g
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