Hello Micru!
Responses in-line.
On 30 March 2016 at 10:33, David Cuenca Tudela <dacuetu(a)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
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Dan Garry
Lead Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation