[WikiEN-l] [Wikipedia-l] full-text searching since the Vector switch in en.wikipedia

[Nathan]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Magnus Manske
<magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> The link to Special:Search is the magnifying glass icon next to (or
>>> in) the search box.
>>>
>>> To get "Search" instead of "Go", do what Magnus Manske suggested a few days ago:
>>>
>>> "just type your search query, then hit the "cursor up" key to select
>>> the last point in the dropdown box, which is the good ol' search
>>> function. Hit enter, and there you go."
>>
>> It seems this is no longer possible?
>>
>> Strange, as it was possible before and even announced here:
>>
>> http://techblog.wikimedia.org/tag/usability-vector-search/
>>
>> "The “Search” and “Go” buttons are gone, but their functionality live
>> on. As you type, search suggestions are offered and accessible via the
>> mouse or keyboard using the up and down arrow keys. “Go” is still the
>> default action, executed by pressing the enter key on the keyboard. To
>> perform a full-text search, users can click on the “containing” option
>> within the search suggestions or press the up arrow key on the
>> keyboard."
>>
>> But pressing the down button does nothing any more. *sigh*
>
> Yeah, they replaces A&B with C&D, then silently removed D. Be thankful
> that you still have C, you ungrateful user, you!!!!!
>
> Magnus
>


The down arrow still works for me. If you click the magnifying glass
(without terms in the search box), you get to the conventional text
search page. I'm not sure changing the default from "Go!" to text
search is the answer, though - and adding another button would be
confusing. Maybe if the Go page had a "Not the result you wanted?
Click here to search by text" prompt at the top?

Nathan