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Re: "Go" vs "Search" (Nik Everett) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 21:25:53 -0700 >From: [email protected] >To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] "Go" vs "Search" >Message-ID: > <cadxrgozwk9tqzd194kounjsfpdvajzb7t45x5aax27yn6ro...@mail.gmail.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >Wait! > >At the bottom of the 'Simple search' search box's drop down suggestion >list is a final item in a shaded box that reads 'Containing: <search >sting here>'. Selecting that takes you to a search results page. Aha! > >Why am I only now learning this? Maybe I'm a model average user? Not >likely. But it is learning by playing. So maybe others can do it, too? >What do you think? > >Roger > >On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:18 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've just realized that, using 'Simple search', all one has to do to >> get past the article title suggestions is lengthen ones search string >> till it no longer exactly matches any article titles. Then, and only >> then, does 'Simple search' take you to a search results page. Might >> this simply be something folks need to learn to do, by doing? And >> might it simply work? Are average users consistently so cleaver? >> Argggg. I think if we lead them in the right direction it will work >> fine. What do you think? >> >> Roger >> >> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 8:27 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Now that I think about it, does the prefix search still work with that >>>> hack? >>>> By work I mean you should be able to select one of the entries that pops >>>> down under the search box as you type and it takes you to that article. >>> >>> No, with the hack in place clicking on one of the drop down search >>> suggestions takes you to the search results page for that value, not >>> to an article page. That _is_ perhaps what I want. I want Search to >>> take you to a search results page, so that a user may choose which >>> page he wants. >>> >>> Is the drop down list of search suggestions generated from a list of >>> the wiki's page titles? Hm, I guess it is. I had not realized that. So >>> how does one search the wiki's page texts? This whole search feature >>> seems to be designed to take a user to a destination article directly >>> whenever possible. I'm not sure that is best for my wiki because that >>> page may not always be the one a user wants and without the search >>> results page, how will he find the one he does want? By doing another >>> search with more search terms? Hm, maybe we can all get used to this >>> and maybe it will just work. >>> >>> Argggg, and trying to change this designed in behavior may not be so >>> easy for a chiefly point and click guy like me. >>> >>> So I may decide to use the two button ('Go' + 'Search') Search box >>> that I get when I set $wgVectorUseSimpleSearch to false, instead, >>> especially if this hack is not going to work in future. >>> >>> Thanks for the tips. >>> >>> Roger > > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 2 >Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 21:27:46 -0700 >From: [email protected] >To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] "Go" vs "Search" >Message-ID: > <CADxRgOyz8C6iEZtc4En6bB03=93qxq2kpb-_dxoddtopezc...@mail.gmail.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > >> have you tried clicking the entry below the suggestions? (where it says >> "containing…") see attachment >> >> -Jeremy > >Yes Jeremy. Thanks, just discovered that a moment ago. I guess others >can "discover" it, too. Hope so. > >Roger > > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 3 >Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 04:36:47 +0000 >From: Jeremy Baron <[email protected]> >To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > <[email protected]> >Subject: [MediaWiki-l] content in site root >Message-ID: > <cae-2ocarwyhrfkkejpuvos423kk6x0nasmfdhsoe3stdm+x...@mail.gmail.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > >On Sep 7, 2013 12:27 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yes Jeremy. Thanks, just discovered that a moment ago. I guess others >> can "discover" it, too. Hope so. > >btw, just noticed that your content lives in the site root. have a look at >https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_in_site_root_directory when you >get a chance. > >(moved offlist because I didn't notice it until now and didn't want to add >more noise to the thread) > >-Jeremy > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 4 >Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 07:10:06 -0400 >From: Nik Everett <[email protected]> >To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > <[email protected]> >Cc: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] "Go" vs "Search" >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > > >Sent from my iPhone > >On Sep 7, 2013, at 12:27 AM, [email protected] wrote: > >>> have you tried clicking the entry below the suggestions? (where it says >>> "containing…") see attachment >>> >>> -Jeremy >> >> Yes Jeremy. Thanks, just discovered that a moment ago. I guess others >> can "discover" it, too. Hope so. >> >> Roger >> > >You can prefix a search with ~ and that'll force a search but that isn't >intuitive either. > > >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > >------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >MediaWiki-l mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > >End of MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 120, Issue 8 >******************************************* _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
