I think that from user perspective, such help pages are not very useful since most users don't read help pages. Some features (the important ones) should be hinted in the search form itself. In hewiki we modified the [[MediaWiki:Search-summary]][1] to include a small expandable table with hints for features (intitle/incategory e.g).
Eran [1] http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94_%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99:Search-summary?uselang=en On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Nikolas Everett <[email protected]>wrote: > One of our goals while building this has been to make something reasonably > easy to install by folks outside of WMF. I've added some notes about this > to the page. I'd certainly love to hear ways that'd make it simpler to > use. > > Nik > > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Just as a note, MediaWiki default (aka "crappy") search is very > > different from the lucene stuff used by Wikimedia. Lucene search is > > rather difficult to set up, so most third party wikis do not use it. > > > > --bawolff > > > > > > On 6/17/13, Nikolas Everett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm not sure about http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Searching but > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching has lots of things we're > > going > > > to have to add to our list. My guess is > > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Searching is simply out of date. > > > > > > Nik > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Chris McMahon > > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > >> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 1:28 PM, S Page <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > > >> > > > > >> > * enwiki says "Hello dolly" in quotes gives different results, mw > > >> directly > > >> > contradicts this. Even on my local wiki, quotes make a difference. > > >> > > > >> > * enwiki disagrees with itself what a dash in front of a word does. > > >> > > > >> > > >> I did some research a few weeks ago on the current state of Search and > > >> there are a number of discrepancies between the documentation and > actual > > >> behavior. Some of them have BZ tickets, like > > >> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44238 > > >> -Chris > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> Wikitech-l mailing list > > >> [email protected] > > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
