[Foundation-l] drive-by site updates

[Bence Damokos]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Svip <svippy at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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).
>
It was kinda announced on the techblog -
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/05/simplified-search-for-vector/  - but I
was expecting some more testing before any rollout. For example, for me the
search box magic that would suggest the "containing" pages doesn't seem to
load at all (FF 3.6.4, XP).

The collapsible sidebar is actually a nice feature but as suggested above, I
would probably keep the interwiki links visible (if the majority of visitors
come outside the anglophone countries, which I am guessing is the case), as
they can be quite useful for non native speaker visitors to find out about
the Wikipedias in their own language (using some JS trick to offer the
version in their browser's language more prominently would work as well).

Best,
Bence



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