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TASK DESCRIPTION See T349246 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T349246> As a user, I want to be able to find what I'm searching for. The interface makes it too easy (even encourages) users to select incompatible namespaces. This is confusing, produces bad search results and makes it hard for users to find what they are looking for. If I select incompatible namespaces, I expect to at least be warned about them being incompatible, and ideally have an easy way to unselect the namespaces which are incompatible with the namespace I'm most interested in searching. I don't expect to be given an option to select all namespaces if it's not going to produce sensible results when used. In the advanced search, I don't expect preset groups of namespaces to be presented as checkboxes if they are not compatible with each other, because that implies that you can select both at the same time and get sensible results. I should not be expected to magically know which checkboxes can be combined with other checkboxes and which can't. Examples of the interface being unhelpful: It does not tell me I shouldn't select multiple groups: F41607043: search-1.png <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F41607043> It does not tell me I shouldn't click "All": F41607046: search-2.png <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F41607046> It does not tell me I shouldn't select these namespaces together in the dropdown. There is no indication of which of these are ok to combine and which aren't: F41607045: search-3.png <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F41607045> It does not tell me I shouldn't click "Everything": F41607053: search-4.png <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F41607053> It does not tell me I shouldn't click "All" and shouldn't select "Remember selection for future searches" for the current selection. There is no indication of which of these are ok to combine and which aren't: F41607055: search-5.png <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F41607055> TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T353582 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Nikki Cc: Nikki, Aklapper, Danny_Benjafield_WMDE, Astuthiodit_1, karapayneWMDE, Invadibot, maantietaja, ItamarWMDE, Akuckartz, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, EBjune, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331
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