On 06/10/15 17:12, Daniel Barrett wrote:
MZMcBride writes:
It also seems worthwhile to note that "Special:Search" already has an
advanced profile/tab where users can select arbitrary namespaces to search.
Technically that is true, but I suspect that 95% of the time, 95% of users care
only about the main namespace. Filter by category, wildcard searches, title
searches, fuzzy searches, etc., are eminently more usable. I'll probably build
an advanced search plugin myself if nobody else has done it yet.
DanB
This is an important point. Namespace searching by itself really feels
like a much more ham-fisted approach to a lot of this, for when lacking
anything more elegant to narrow things down (not that it's not useful
too). But we do have elegant now, and yet nobody sees it.
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