Greetings,
After a year of design and development, Special:MediaSearch [1] will be
released to logged-in users on Wednesday, 12 May 2021. Media Search [2] is
a new content-focused way to search Commons and find freely-licensed media
for use and re-use.
Special:MediaSearch has been default for all anonymous/logged-out users
since 1 April 2021, and once it is default for everyone logged-in users
will have the option to restore Special:Search as their default experience
with a change to a preference.
Feedback is always welcome on the talk page [3], thank you for your time.
1.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaSearch
2.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Media_search
3.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data/Media_search
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Keegan Peterzell (he/him)
Technical Collaboration Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation