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.
—Trey
Trey Jones Software Engineer, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Stas Malyshev smalyshev@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi!
Cool feature. I love power user search operators.
Without reading the instructions, I tried (and failed):
- shark filetype:jpg
- shark filetype:image
- shark filetype:photo
Unfortunately, wiki file types (not to confuse with MIME types!) are kind of unobvious. The right incantation is:
shark filetype:bitmap
Though shark filetype:drawing works too :)
Yes, there's no chance to know that without the docs[1] and it isn't something I'm happy about, but so far no idea of how to improve it has been found. If anybody has good ideas in this regard, please feel welcome to share.
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch#filetype
P.S. at least filetype:video and filetype:audio are intuitive :)
Stas Malyshev smalyshev@wikimedia.org
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