[Foundation-l] drive-by site updates

Svip svippy at gmail.com
Sun May 16 15:15:33 UTC 2010


On 16 May 2010 17:14, Svip <svippy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 May 2010 17:12, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
>> <amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>>> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 15:11, Svip <svippy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 16 May 2010 14:06, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> But the introduction of the new search box that practically can't
>>>>> search, was not part of the beta and it was a complete surprise. Am i
>>>>> badly mistaken?
>>>>
>>>> After my own attempts, I cannot find any issues with the search box.
>>>> Could you describe your problems more accurately?  Or better yet, file
>>>> a bug report about it on https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/
>>>
>>> In Vector, search for "begin". You'll get to the page "Begin". There's
>>> no way to actually search Wikipedia for the word "begin" using this
>>> search box.
>>
>> <sigh>
>> Type "begin" in the box, hit the cursor-up key to select the last rows
>> in the suggest box, hit enter.
>
> <sigh>
> That is /real/ user friendly.  I bet Joe Public can figure that one out.

Also, I apologise for sending this mail out too quick, but your
suggestion didn't work.  Unless you consider the 'AJAX-suggestions' to
be 'search' (which it isn't, btw).



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