On 23/01/07, Titoxd@Wikimedia titoxd.wikimedia@gmail.com wrote:
Speaking from the technical side, there is a hurdle with the "vastly improved searches" that are requested, at least on one aspect.
Retrieving the results is one thing. Improving how they are displayed is something that could be improved on too. For example we lack a gallery-based search. (Special:Newimages only searches on image titles. The functionality is there, so why not extend it to image descriptions?)
As for categories: date of page creation is not stored in the tables right now; that would be ideally something for the page table. The time a page included in a category is already stored (or at least, there is room for it), so that may be easier to do in the future. Dynamic sort tables have issues with older browsers, but maybe a sortby can be done by the server as well. These things do require a considerable amount of coding and testing, though.
Well, that's why it's my vision, and not my requests for next week. ;)
cheers, Brianna