On Nov 2, 2012, at 10:32 AM, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:29 AM, Andrew Gray <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> It's already in the default search mask, so categories and other
> default search namespaces will come up in fulltext search (your own
> user preferences may be different, but that's the behavior for new or
> logged out users) -- but the instant lookup (what used to be the "Go"
> button) only works on the main namespace, or if you provide the
> namespace prefix/alias.
> 

See also https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30323

-- Krinkle


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