An apology: sorry for the superfluous email and wasted bandwidth. I just read Brion Vibber's announcement of the temporary search in the most recent WikiEN-l digest.
Thanks again Brion, it looks great!
Regards, Harris7
8/6/03 10:49:12 AM, Chris Harris harris7@io.com wrote:
Well, I realize I'm a newbie and all... but <sniff> I guess I'll have to just reply to my own email since nobody will talk to me :-)
I just noticed the search button is now working, and working great! A
big
Thank You to the responsible developer!!
One followup newbie question: I didn't see the search "fix" announced on Wikipedia:Announcements - is there some other place that Wikipedia/software announcements are made? Or maybe there is another maillist with such announcements?
Thanks, Harris7
8/5/03 2:09:53 PM, Chris Harris harris7@io.com wrote:
Hi,
In the "not found" screen ("No page with this exact title exists, trying full text search. Well, I would be trying a full text search here... Google and run a search on site:wikipedia.org -- the results will be outdated and incomplete, though.") wouldn't it be much friendlier to send the user directly to the following link? I think I copied this from the old search or "not found" screen:
http://www.google.com/custom? sa=Google+Search&domains=wikipedia.org&sitesearch= wikipedia.org
Regards, Harris7