On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 17:40, Steve Summit <s...@eskimo.com> wrote: > > Carcharoth wrote: > > I suppose the idea is that most people using that search box want > > "go" functionality, > > Many tech-savvy editors, perhaps, but certainly not most readers. > > > not "search" functionality, but seeing as Google's default is > > "search" not "go", I suspect more people are used to getting a list > > of search results and clicking the top one than might be realised. > > Indeed. If there's to be one box, clearly it should be "Search", > not "Go". (And the search results page already has a "Wikipedia has > an article on %s" link right at the top, if there's an exact match. > So, retconned, "Go" is/was kinda like the Google "I'm feeling lucky" > button.)
... Yes, it makes a lot of sense that there would be such a button in Wikipedia, because quite a lot of the people who type "obama" probably just want the article about the president (but someone should research how many exactly). Forcing them to see a list of results and have them click on the first one wastes some time. But it also makes sense to be able to run a full-text search as easily as possible. -- אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי Amir Elisha Aharoni http://aharoni.wordpress.com "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l