On 09/11/06, Jay R. Ashworth <jra(a)baylink.com> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 02:39:27AM +1100, Tim Starling
wrote:
As for search and go, well my preference for a
long time has been that we
should remove the "search" button from the sidebar, to make it harder to
find and thus reduce the request rate. Go is much faster than search, if it
manages to find a title match without sending you on to the full text
search. Most readers don't know the difference, and if they did, they would
click "go" in the great majority of cases.
Second.
All in favor?
I am not sure it would be a good idea for Commons - although I guess
most searches would not have a direct match in the main namespace, so
maybe the end result would be the same - but I think that Commons is
different enough to the other Wikimedia wikis to need a specialised
search function. Can we plead a special case? :)
Maybe it would be better to wait for the "image implementation
overhaul" to happen, no idea when that might be. But even a gallery
for search results could be useful. Some functionality like
MediaSearch [1] would be a godsend...
regards,
Brianna
user:pfctdayelise
[1]:
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/WikiSense/MediaSearch.php?wikifam=commons…