https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35974
--- Comment #5 from zlight <[email protected]> 2012-04-19 17:32:30 UTC --- I agree that there are a lot of preferences. But this is a fairly basic preference. Search is the number one thing many people want on a site. And if it were the default setting, then it would not be a preference. Most readers and editors do not change the default preference and gadget settings much. And going to a global gadget setting on Meta is beyond the knowledge of most casual readers and editors. Most readers do not know much about how to find stuff on the commons and Wikipedia. They try the search form, but soon see that it covers up the page they are looking at. Many people stop using the search form after that, and use Google toolbar instead. I did that for a long time. But Google toolbar does not have a separate category search as does the Commons search form that shows up after the initial search. Google toolbar does not allow one to pick and choose namespaces to search as does the search form that shows up after the initial search. There are a couple ways to fix this. 1. Put an advanced search link in the sidebar. It would link to Special:Search. 2. Make search suggestions and results show up in a new tab by default. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
