Hello Micru!
Responses in-line.
On 30 March 2016 at 10:33, David Cuenca Tudela dacuetu@gmail.com wrote:
I was looking for some lichen images on Commons and I was wondering how can I show a grid of images. I tried several options but nothing, I think that there was some hack to make the search results look more like Google images, or maybe I am wrong?
I assume you're looking for something like this https://i.imgur.com/QWQgJmK.png? That screenshot was taken the dialogue used to instead media in VisualEditor. Unfortunately, the search interface in MediaWiki does not offer this functionality right now.
This screenshot also happens to illustrate another common problem with media search; you probably weren't looking for the Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Our_Lady_of_Liche%C5%84 in the village of Licheń Stary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liche%C5%84_Stary in Poland, but there it is anyway!
Is this part of the Discovery team work?
Yes, improving the experience of the search page on-wiki is within the scope of the Search Team in the Discovery Department. However, the team is not actively working on this right now. Improving media search in particular is presently on the roadmap for FY 2016-17 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/FDC_Proposal#Strategic:_Focus_area_1 (July 2016 - June 2017) as a strategic focus area.
Hope this helps.
Thanks, Dan