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 13 October 2015 at 02:24, Erik Bernhardson <ebernhard...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > 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 > least mw:Help:CirrusSearch is linked (at the very very bottom) which might > allow a perseverant wikipedian to find them, much more could be done > though. > > This would be interesting to work on, but I don't expect Discovery will > find time to investigate this for Q2. For the current quarter Discovery is > focusing its efforts towards fixing the search results you get with a plain > query that contains no special syntax. The search results are just not > nearly as relevant as they can be. > > I'm certain I could find time to review anything put together for this > though. Off the top of my head I would probably start by adjusting how the > autocompleter works, having it know the various prefixes available and > include them in the autocomplete drop down. Thats just a random idea from > me though, it seems there are plenty of other ideas to go around. If anyone > from the community plans to work on this just add me to the related gerrit > patch or phabricator ticket and I'll try and help you move it along. > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 7:53 PM, Isarra Yos <zhoris...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 about the main namespace. Filter by category, wildcard >>> searches, title searches, fuzzy searches, etc., are eminently more usable. >>> I'll probably build an advanced search plugin myself if nobody else has >>> done it yet. >>> >>> DanB >>> >> >> This is an important point. Namespace searching by itself really feels >> like a much more ham-fisted approach to a lot of this, for when lacking >> anything more elegant to narrow things down (not that it's not useful too). >> But we do have elegant now, and yet nobody sees it. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Oliver Keyes Count Logula Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
