Re: [WikiEN-l] full-text searching since the Vector switch in en.wikipedia

2010-05-21 Thread Andrew Gray
On 20 May 2010 19:19, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: If we're in a proposal mood:   Why not make it go, but if it go-es rather than takes you to special search  put a small box of other search results above the article. (along with your advanced button, and an obvious close X to

Re: [WikiEN-l] full-text searching since the Vector switch in en.wikipedia

2010-05-20 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
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

Re: [WikiEN-l] full-text searching since the Vector switch in en.wikipedia

2010-05-20 Thread Ray Saintonge
Amir E. Aharoni wrote: On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 17:40, Steve Summit s...@eskimo.com wrote: Carcharoth wrote: 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

Re: [WikiEN-l] full-text searching since the Vector switch in en.wikipedia

2010-05-20 Thread Andrew Gray
On 19 May 2010 15:51, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: ... 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

Re: [WikiEN-l] full-text searching since the Vector switch in en.wikipedia

2010-05-20 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: Relatedly, a proposal! Search box, two buttons. One, search or go, acts as the old mixed-search go button - it is a direct leap to that title, else falling back on the search. The second button is advanced; it takes

Re: [WikiEN-l] full-text searching since the Vector switch in en.wikipedia

2010-05-19 Thread Steve Summit
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