Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 17:40, Steve Summit
<scs(a)eskimo.com> wrote:
Carcharoth wrote:
not "search" functionality, but seeing
as Google's default is
"search" not "go", I suspect more people are used to getting a list
of search results and clicking the top one than might be realised.
Indeed. If there's to be one box, clearly it should be
"Search",
not "Go". (And the search results page already has a "Wikipedia has
an article on %s" link right at the top, if there's an exact match.
So, retconned, "Go" is/was kinda like the Google "I'm feeling
lucky"
button.)
... Yes, it makes a lot of sense that there would be such a button in
Wikipedia, because quite a lot of the people who type "obama" probably
just want the article about the president (but someone should research
how many exactly). Forcing them to see a list of results and have them
click on the first one wastes some time.
But it also makes sense to be able to run a full-text search as easily
as possible.
I rarely "feel lucky" with Google.
The search function should also make clear what Boolean options are
available.
The importance of beta systems can be misleading. Most of us who are
not techno-geeks feel clueless about what is being done there, and are
satisfied with a system that is familiar and works without any
surprises. Even editing ".js" files is beyond us.
The Classic skin was the standard when I first joined, and I'm happy to
stick with it.
Ec