"Go" should work just fine for pages in other namespaces, as long as you're writing the full title - eg "Talk:Foo" not just "Foo".

If you want it to check the given text portion against *all* namespaces, that may require a little work.

I don't recall if we fixed it up to check plain titles against everything in $wgDefaultSearchNamespaces already, but it's probably not hard to rig up an extension to do that; I can't peek at the code just yet as I'm on a train. :)

-- brion On Oct 18, 2010 8:23 AM, "Ross Xu" rossxunix@yahoo.ca wrote:

Hi there, As we know, the difference between "Go" and "Search" buttons beside the

search box is that "Go" first looks for article's title and first lists search results found in titles, and immediately goes to the indicated article if one is found. If "Go" fails to find an article, it then automatically executes "Search" which is a full-text search for the given words.

However, it only works well for default namespaces. If the given keywords

string is in articles under a customized namespace, the "Go" doesn't look for (or list) article titles first, which means there is no difference between "Go" and "Search".

Is there any way to do to make the "Go" to work for customized namespaces?

BTW, in case there is something to do with the search engine, I am using

Lucene-search/MWSearch.

Thanks in advance, Ross Xu

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When searching for something, if its in another namespace that is set to be searched by default, it will find it (eg: searching for Images, and you have a page by that name in another NS such as help) and will list it as the first result but it won't auto redirect to the pae if that is what you're talking about, There is currently a open bug[1] about that. -Peachey

[1]. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11380