2008/4/28 Anthony wikimail@inbox.org:
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:59 PM, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
First and hopefully uncontroversial step: make user and user talk space non searchable via google etc. That will at any rate diminish the tendency to use Wikipedia as a personal web site.
First step should be to add a single checkbox to Wikipedia's internal search to search *all* namespaces, without having to check every single box. (Or is there already a way to do that?)
OH YES PLEASE.
Anyone wanna file a bug report for me?
I'm cc'ing this to wikitech-l, there's a lot of really good active work in progress right now on the search. (That's why the internal search is productively usable now, as opposed to not being.)
- d.
First step should be to add a single checkbox to Wikipedia's internal search to search *all* namespaces, without having to check every single box. (Or is there already a way to do that?)
OH YES PLEASE.
There is no checkbox, but you can use the all prefix. Type into the search box:
all:douglas adams
and this will search all namespaces. If you wish to search one namespaces, use it as prefix:
wp:douglas adams
r.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Robert Stojnic rainmansr@gmail.com wrote:
First step should be to add a single checkbox to Wikipedia's internal search to search *all* namespaces, without having to check every single box. (Or is there already a way to do that?)
OH YES PLEASE.
There is no checkbox, but you can use the all prefix. Type into the search box:
all:douglas adams
and this will search all namespaces. If you wish to search one namespaces, use it as prefix:
wp:douglas adams
r.
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Is there documentation on the available prefixes? Because they are damn useful.
Bryan
Is there documentation on the available prefixes? Because they are damn useful.
There used to be documentation on the old extension page [1], but I guess that wasn't very clear. It used to be possible to define your own subsets of namespaces as separate prefixes, but that somehow didn't get ported when we switched to MWSearch. Here is an overview of current functionality: Prefixes: * all - searches all namespaces, e.g. all:kurt vonnegut * <namespace name> - search one particular namespace, e.g. wikipedia:deletion * <ns1>,<ns2>,<ns3>,... - search a list of namespaces, e.g. help,help_talk:tables * incategory - search articles in category (when category is added directly by the article and *not* via template), e.g. incategory:"Living people" incategory:"University of California, Berkeley faculty"
the last one gives a limited mock-up category intersection capability (don't trust the highlight there :), which could be useful for testing if someone would want to make the category intersection frontend.
r.
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