On Nov 2, 2012, at 10:32 AM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:29 AM, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
I can imagine it being amazingly useful (particularly with autocompletion, but even without...). Alternatively, given the major role categories play for Commons compared to most mediawiki projects, is it possible to simply enable searching the category: namespace by default?
It's already in the default search mask, so categories and other default search namespaces will come up in fulltext search (your own user preferences may be different, but that's the behavior for new or logged out users) -- but the instant lookup (what used to be the "Go" button) only works on the main namespace, or if you provide the namespace prefix/alias.
See also https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30323
-- Krinkle