https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66066
Bug ID: 66066
Summary: Add Help namespace, and perhaps other documentation,
to default search
Product: Wikimedia
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Keywords: code-update-regression
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General/Unknown
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected]
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Split from:
(In reply to MZMcBride from bug 52817 comment #35)
> If many users are customizing their search settings, we're doing something
> wrong.
(In reply to Quiddity from bug 52817 comment #40)
> Searching for help documentation is HELL unless we add the Wikipedia: ,
> Help: , and Template: namespaces to our default search. For the first few
> years as a new editor, I was constantly searching those namespaces for tools
> and guides. (Note that the Template: and Category: namespaces aren't
> included in the "Help and Project pages" output)
That tab was removed: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132965/1 Which makes
sense for most MediaWiki installations but not for Wikimedia projects editors.
Until bug 22774 is fixed or some hook is found to add the tab again on
Wikimedia projects, I think we must add Help to
$wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault on all wikis: results from it will mostly be
what users expect, when they come up.
Personally I recommend against Project, or even worse Template, because on many
wikis they contain an entire ghost project, often with article-like titles and
content. See for instance some Wikipedias which have almost a *million* pages
in either, extreme right of
https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesCurrentStatusVerbose.htm
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