https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52935

Chad H. <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Priority|Low                         |Lowest
            Summary|'talk:foo' search returns   |Retry searches when
                   |unexpected results,         |namespace-specific search
                   |searches wrong NS           |returns nothing
           Severity|minor                       |enhancement

--- Comment #2 from Chad H. <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Nik Everett from comment #1)
> The search part seems to be working correctly.  When we have a namespace
> prefix we seem to be successfully limiting the search to that namespace.  At
> least, that is what my debugging shows.
> 

You're right.

> It would be nice if we could update the "profile" on the search page based
> on the namespace prefix but this isn't how it works now (see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.
> php?search=talk%3Acatapult&title=Special%3ASearch&fulltext=1).
> 

Actually I'm not so sure. I think the current behavior's pretty predictable as
it is. I'd get kind of confused as a user if the profile just changed on me.

> As far as searching without the namespace restriction if you don't find any
> results with the restriction, I'm open to this but I don't think that it is
> a now thing.  I've made similar comments in Bug 52904 but left that one high
> priority due to relevance issues.  I think the namespace filter is more
> deliberate than extra search terms.  It is special syntax you have to know
> and use.
> 
> Triaging to low because both potential fixes seem low priority, at least to
> me.

This part is still possibly worth doing.

Retitling bug, marking as enhancement, lowering priority further.

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