I can imagine it being amazingly useful (particularly with autocompletion, but even without...). Alternatively, given the major role categories play for Commons compared to most mediawiki projects, is it possible to simply enable searching the category: namespace by default?
- Andrew. On Friday, 2 November 2012, Erik Moeller wrote: > WikiVoyage has a small but clever extension to do quicker lookup of > pages in additional content namespaces if no namespace prefix is > provided. So if we used this for Commons, and configured "Category:" > as an extra lookup namespace, you could type "Low quality chemical > diagrams" and it'd pull up the category of that name immediately > without the full-text search being loaded. This appears to basically > be another solution to > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11380 > > The drawback is that it doesn't play nice with autocompletion and > other API consumers yet. Ideally I suspect you'd want autcompletion to > do lookup in multiple namespaces as well, and provide subtle namespace > hinting (as oposed to prefixing) in the dropdown, like so (where > CATEGORY would be in a smaller font). > > [ Low ] > Low quality chemical diagrams CATEGORY > Lower Saxony > > Thoughts? Would this be a useful improvement for Commons in > particular, even without autocompletion? I suspect it could help > reduce some of the category/gallery pain. > > -- > Erik Möller > VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation > > Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] <javascript:;> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > -- - Andrew Gray [email protected]
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