https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34233
--- Comment #10 from howief <[email protected]> 2012-02-10 23:18:08 UTC --- (In reply to comment #9) > I agree with tomasz. I don't think this should be thrown away I just don't > think the plus symbol is appropriate... The (+) not getting thrown away because of the symbol. Term by term addition is nice if a) there are terms to add (i.e., if our typical search includes more than say 2-3 words) and b) our existing type-ahead doesn't add add these terms. In my opinion, this is an area where we can rat-hole around both the design and the implementation of the feature and it's not clear to me that doing so _at this point in time_ is worth the effort. Granted, if there is a user need and we can execute on it in the right way, it could be valuable to have the feature. But we have plenty of other interesting problems to work on. re: a) Do we know what our average search length (by number of terms entered before a type-ahead selection is selected) on the English Wikipedia is? If, say, 80% of our searches are between 1-3 words that's one thing. If 80% of our searches are 4+ words, that's something else. b) In many cases, the existing type-ahead seems to suggest the right amount of words to get the user to the article. For example, typing "barack" surfaces "barack obama". There's no need for the (+) here. If I were looking for barack obama's 2008 presidental campaign, this article also shows up in type ahead. Let's take a look at the core interaction here. (+) is useful for searches with multiple terms where the type-ahead is not deterministic and the (+) can help narrow down the field of results. Anyway, that's my $0.02. I just feel we have much bigger fish to fry right now, but feel free to disagree. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
