https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66066

--- Comment #2 from Chad H. <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Nemo from comment #0)
> 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.
> 

Yes it does make sense to remove from WMF wikis. We looked at the logs for
searching and less than 0.01% of searches ever use these tabs.

> 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.
> 

There is a hook already, SpecialSearchProfiles. I'm unconvinced we should use
it to readd the tab. The idea here is to de-clutter that area of search.

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