Hi Igal, thanks for letting us know! Could you maybe give a bit more details (e.g. the skin you use, operating system) and make a screenshot so that we can look into it?
Best place to report that would be directly in Phabricator, project tag is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/advanced-search/. Thans and cheers, Birgit 2017-11-21 23:51 GMT+01:00 יגאל חיטרון <[email protected]>: > Hello. Great idea indeed. But it does not work. I just opted in, and I can > only see broken rectangles and partial captures. Looks like a huge css > problem. > User:IKhitron (Igal) > > > > On Nov 21, 2017 23:02, "Birgit Müller" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > (sorry for cross-posting ...) > > > Hello all, > > we're really happy to announce that the new AdvancedSearch interface got > deployed as a beta feature to Mediawiki.org and test just 2 hours ago. [1] > > AdvancedSearch enhances Special:Search through an advanced parameters form > and aims to make existing search options more visible and accessible for > everyone. [2] > > The feature is a project by WMDE's Tech team and originates from the > Technical Wishes project. Many other people and teams helped making this > project happen, so stay tuned for the thank you section at the end of this > email :-) [3] > > *Why AdvancedSearch* > > The Search has great options to perform advanced queries, but often even > experienced editors don't know about it - this is what we found out when we > were conducting a workshop series on advanced search in several cities in > Germany in 2016. Together with contributors from German Wikipedia we've > discussed their desired search queries, explained how the syntax works and > how keywords like "hastemplate", "filetype" or "intitle" can be used and > combined to get the desired results. > > The idea for the AdvancedSearch feature results out of these workshops, > where we not only discussed search but also designed first mocks for an > advanced search interface. [4] > > > > *The first version, more deployments and other next steps*AdvancedSearch > supports some of the special search options the WMF's search team has been > implemented in the last years. The way the interface works, users don't > have to know the syntax behind each search field, but they can learn about > it if they want to. The first version of the feature comes with a first > selection of advanced search options, e.g. including support for > "hastemplate" or "intitle". The WMF's search team has started to work on a > 'deepcat' functionality to make sub category search happen. We plan to add > support for this in the future, too. > > If all goes well, we plan to deploy the beta feature on German and Arabic > Wikipedia by Wednesday, Nov 29. [5] > > In the next 2-3 months we'd love to invite everyone to test the new feature > on those wikis: Comments, thoughs, bug reports ... - any feedback is much > appreciated! > > Please see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:AdvancedSearch for how to > use AdvancedSearch. > > Deployments to other wikis can follow later. > > *Thank you (finally!)* > > This project was developed with the support from many different people from > the start, and this makes it very special to us: We would like to thank the > folks from the German Wikipedia community who participated in the workshops > and who were discussing and designing first ideas together with us. We > would like to thank all other people who gave valuable feedback on > Phabricator, onwiki and in real life. We would like to thank the Arabic > Wikipedia community for getting interested in AdvancedSearch, and for > offering to test this feature in an early stage. The credit for the > development work on AdvancedSearch goes to our FUN team, supported by the > team that usually works on Technical Wishes. Last but really not least we > would like to thank the great folks from the WMF's search team who have > supported this project from the start and who have done (and still do) the > necessary backend work that now got supported by the AdvancedSearch > extension. > > Sorry for the long email, and thanks for reading :-) > > Birgit (for the Technical Wishes team) > > > [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180147 (Deployment ticket group 0) > [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:AdvancedSearch > [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/AdvancedSearch > [4] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Advanc > edSearch/Workshop > [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180128 (Deployment ticket arwiki > and > dewiki) > > > > -- > Birgit Müller > Community Communications Manager > Software Development and Engineering > > > > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin > Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 > http://wikimedia.de > > Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen > Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! > http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter > der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für > Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- Birgit Müller Community Communications Manager Software Development and Engineering Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. 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