https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21143
Summary: Default search results at Special:PrefixIndex are
unhelpful
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Special pages
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
A comment was raised at [[en:Wikipedia
talk:Special:PrefixIndex#Inappropriate_default_search.3F]], that the default
results of [[en:Special:PrefixIndex]] include obvious profane titles.
Being able to hide pages beginning with ! would solve it at that particular
wiki, but a more general solution might be to simply not display anything when
the page is initially shown, since the default results (blank prefix search)
are unlikely to be helpful in its use as a search page. If it's possible to
distinguish between searching on a blank prefix and not having yet searched on
anything, that would neatly solve the problem. Not displaying results even for
a deliberately blank search would be no great loss either as the same results
can be got via [[Special:AllPages]] or [[Special:AllPages/!]].
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