Matthias Jordan wrote:
Hi, folks!
I'd like to put a new optional feature into Phase-III and wanted to ask whether that's OK or not.
When users search, they search by default only in the article namespace (rather, in no namespace at all). In new Wikis smaller communities it could be very useful to let users search for other namespaces by default as well. E.g. many new users will want to search for documentation. I'm working for a youth organization and we have many non-computer literate members. To let them search for on-site documentation, they have to search, fail, click on the correct namespace and search again. My feature would enable the admin to define a site-wide default set of namespaces to search for that defaults to the currently used set.
Any criticism, hints, additions, objections?
Implement it as part of the preferences of logged-in users. This will automaticaly enable logged-in users to configure what namespaces they will search and enables the admins via Language-Files to set each Language to the behaviour the users there want to have, also including the not-logged-in ones.