On 2013-08-28 8:24 PM, "Sumana Harihareswara" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 08/28/2013 02:21 PM, Nikolas Everett wrote: > > > 3. A few funky things around intitle and incategory: > > 3a. You can combine them with a regular query (incategory:kings peaceful) > > 3b. You can use prefix searches with them (incategory:norma*) > > 3c. You can use them everywhere in the query (roger incategory:normans) > > I especially want to point out here that, with the new search, we can do > "category intersection" searches, which people have wanted FOR YEARS. > Just as an example picked at random, you could search for > "incategory:women" and "incategory:novelists" and "incategory:American". > Just to pick an example at random. ;-) > < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_April_24#Category:American_women_novelists > > > This is really exciting but we want to make sure it works right before > we roll it out to our bigger sites! So please do try it ou. On > test2.wikipedia.org you can copy templates and articles from your home > wiki and then run the search to see if things work okay. > -- > Sumana Harihareswara > Engineering Community Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Its not that that's new, its that it actually works. (We previously had category intersection of this form, it just didn't include categories from templates since template expansion wasn't done) I think the community members who want this really want it with a more discoverable form. Maybe once new search is rolled out we should look into making an advanced search interface. -bawolff
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