Hi! > Would there be any drawback with the following steps as way forward > and possibility to learn more as we go? > 1. We return results for the Lexeme namespace only when people > explicitly select it
If you mean "it and only it" (as opposed to Lexemes + any other namespace), then yes, this is doable and this is probably what I am going to start with. However, a lot of people - as I observed with several community members - tend to use "All" option and expect it to work. > 2. We get feedback > 3. We go the "Best possible query" route when people select all namespaces > 4. We get feedback > 5. We go the "Best possible query" route for all searches if feedback > indicates this is useful (I don't know at this point) I am not sure which mode is best for Wikidata now, there are at least several plausible ways do go by default for Special:Search: 1. Search in Items only 2. Search in Items + Properties 3. Search in Items + Properties + Lexemes 4. Search in Items + Lexemes 5. Any of the above plus some of the article spaces (i.e. Wikidata or Help) This requires mixed search working (except for 1 and 2) but is a separate decision from it. -- Stas Malyshev [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikidata-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech
