Hopefully when the GUI is updated to make this kind of search easier for users with lower skill levels, the syntax will become a non-issue.

Pine


On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Trey Jones <tjones@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Cool—thanks, Stas!

Trey Jones
Software Engineer, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation


On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi!

> Is Justin's suggestion of aliases feasible, so that "filetype:image" is
> the same as "filetype:bitmap"? there's still the question of what to map
> to what, but that seems like it would help if it's easy enough to
> implement. And of course a histogram of filetype:<x> would tell you what
> people are trying to use.
>
> But maybe adding aliases to reserve words is too messy.

Created https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150887 for it. Using logs to
see what people are using with filetype: is a great idea too, we'd have
to wait for a month or so to gather data I assume.

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Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@wikimedia.org

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