https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21069
Summary: Search User-Interface Inconsistency
Product: MediaWiki Suggestions
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Suggestion
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
There is an apparent user-interface inconsistency across Wikipedia [and
Wiktionary] search pages. On-entry, the “search” field in the left-hand
navigation window performs a “go to article of this name” [eg. typing
“gomboc” yields the Gomboc article]. Yet if you mistype an entry into that
search field [eg. “comboc” instead of “gomboc”], you are directed to
the “special page” search page with the prompt ‘Did you mean…”. Any
search from this page is now a “search for words within articles”; it’s
no longer a “go to article of this name”, yet the user is not explicitly
informed that the search field on this page will perform a different search
than the “search” field on the left.
With the “special page” active, there are two search fields visible, yet
they don’t perform the same function. The left-hand field is labeled
“search”, but on-entry, it actually performs a “Go” function, while
on-etry from the right-hand field performs a "search” function.
This is a violation [though minor] of user-interface design principles – same
actions should provide same results.
[The simple solution is to make it obvious that they are not the same actions,
i.e. re-label the left-hand search field to “go to article”, and re-label
the right-hand special page search field to “search for words in
articles”.]
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