Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Search

Community Wishlist Survey 2022

Search

5 proposals, 162 contributors, 233 support votes

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Change default number of search results displayed

Edit proposal/discussion

Problem: Currently, when using the Search Special page, only 20 results are displayed per page by default. This is too small to navigate between pages of results.
Proposed solution: There should be a user preference to choose the default number of results per page.
Who would benefit: Every user wanting to avoid changing number of results per page for each search.
More comments:
Phabricator tickets: phab:T215716
Proposer: ◄ David L • talk ► 00:31, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

I would use this. Should be relatively simple to implement. · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 07:00, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Yes please. I usually have to bother the servers twice, by retrieving a useless sample of 20 random results then clicking 500 to get the list I wanted. Certes (talk) 18:43, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Certes Maybe this particular issue could already be solved by allowing the number of results to be configured in the advanced search options at Special:Search. A setting to change the default would then add allow for additional convenience. Also plugging ru:Участник:Facenapalm/highlimits.js in case you want to access over 500 results at once without needing to change the URL parameter manually. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 20:14, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, if this doesn't happen then I'll simulate it locally with JavaScript, as with Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Watchlists/Preference to set default watchlist expiry, but it would help both us and the servers to build it in. Certes (talk) 22:59, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I would love to have this, especially for expensive queries (like complex regex queries) that likely time out. It's not just inconvenient for me as a user, it's an unnecessary drain on the search servers to re-do the query (whether to get a second page of results or to go from 20 to 500 results). Either a default user preference or a way to indicate a number of results for a specific query would be useful. Trey314159 (talk) 20:39, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I also would use this! Thanks for this proposal! — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dwain Zwerg (talk) 09:25, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It would be good if this could also be an admin- or user-level setting--Spiros71 (talk) 12:42, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
(edit: posted previous under a wrong suggestion) Yes, 20 results as default is too little. SSneg (talk) 21:16, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Would have supported if I had known voting ended at 18 UTC. This feature already exists for watchlists/recent changes, so why not for search as well? ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 20:09, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support Simple change that would save effort. Keith D (talk) 19:16, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Arnd (talk) 20:05, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Taivo (talk) 20:19, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --MSY-07 (talk) 20:21, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support --Kusurija (talk) 20:30, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Thryduulf (talk: meta · en.wp · wikidata) 20:31, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Xn00bit (talk) 20:33, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support USI2020 (talk) 20:48, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support! — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 22:11, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support DMacks (talk) 22:13, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jonesey95 (talk) 22:32, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Izno (talk) 23:58, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Certes (talk) 01:44, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Betseg (talk) 02:15, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support War (talk) 04:12, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support JopkeB (talk) 06:52, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support 𝑇𝑚𝑣 (𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘) 07:18, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 07:31, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Larshei (talk) 09:02, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Celerias (talk) 11:00, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Meiræ 11:09, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Corn cheese (talk) 11:28, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support 職員室 (talk) 12:40, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support It would be good if this could also be an admin- or user-level setting--Spiros71 (talk) 12:42, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 12:42, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support —Bruce1ee^talk 14:44, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Aca (talk) 15:04, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Pasodezebras (talk) 17:56, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support //Lollipoplollipoplollipop::talk 18:12, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Waddles 🗩 🖉 21:42, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support ToBeFree (talk) 23:16, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support czar 00:00, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support TheInternetGnome (talk) 07:15, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ali Imran Awan (talk) 07:17, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lectrician1 (talk) 07:23, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Stryn (talk) 17:17, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support KevinL (aka L235 · t) 20:58, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 23:29, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support: it doesn't seem difficult to implement. I wouldn't have supported this if it were just a small UI improvement, but given that some queries can be expensive (regex is mentioned above), this does seem like a substantive improvement in both editor time and server load. A user preference is one way to do it, and an option at the point of searching is another. — Bilorv (talk) 23:35, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support JPxG (talk) 00:59, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kimdorris (talk) 03:22, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support HugoHelp (talk) 04:24, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support JAn Dudík (talk) 14:06, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support the wub "?!" 15:01, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wecoc (talk) 15:05, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support K-MUS (talk) 19:05, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mbkv717 (talk) 20:09, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Trey314159 (talk) 22:05, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Shooterwalker (talk) 22:18, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Dave Braunschweig (talk) 00:06, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Havang(nl) (talk) 09:44, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Glerium (talk) 12:24, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thanks, EDG 543 (message me) 14:41, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thingofme (talk) 14:56, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support [Le Roux] (talk) 19:08, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Macuser (talk) 18:45, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — JJMC89 (T·C) 02:14, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support I A.S. Universal (talk) 05:47, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support KingAntenor (talk) 06:57, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support If corporation can have a dedicate tool to dig into our data, it should be possible to sightly improve how basic users can search in the projects. Noé (talk) 11:51, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — MrDolomite • Talk 04:38, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Paucabot (talk) 15:48, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kcomerfo (talk) 19:18, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daniel Case (talk) 06:04, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yes, that would be great! Tomáš Reichel (talk) 21:30, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rdr3141 (talk) 09:08, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support A needed improvement. Otr500 (talk) 13:57, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Darwin ^Ahoy! 14:48, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lutzto (talk) 17:43, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Fuxx (talk) 04:13, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Vulp❯❯❯here! 08:59, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 10:02, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support —Thanks for the fish! ^{talk•contrib} (he/him) 17:13, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Fiver, der Hellseher (talk) 19:47, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ayumu Ozaki (talk) 01:24, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Brewster239 (T·C·CA) 10:55, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ryse93 (talk) 12:50, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Compagno (talk) 14:45, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tom Ja (talk) 18:04, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Bencemac (talk) 18:40, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rots61 (talk) 23:18, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support I often no-login when only reading in Wikimedia site, but feel searching result display number to too few. So, I think should its number larger. Mario1257 (talk) 12:16, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — DaxServer (t · c) 13:08, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support ~Cybularny ^Speak? 23:37, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Barkeep49 (talk) 21:28, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Gaurav (talk) 03:30, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support 4nn1l2 (talk) 12:44, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mahir256 (talk) 12:46, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Valerio Bozzolan (talk) 17:16, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support -BRAINULATOR9 (TALK) 17:24, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support DSparrow14 (talk) 17:57, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Highlight and scroll to search term on result page

Edit proposal/discussion

Problem: When I search the wiki for a term and select an page to read, I may not immediately see where that term is used on the page.
Proposed solution: Highlight and scroll to where the search term is mentioned on the result page
Who would benefit: Readers who use the search feature
More comments:
Phabricator tickets:
Proposer: Cinokat (talk) 09:52, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

I think the user means that if they search for a term, and the term is mentioned somewhere in a result, that when opening the result, they want the search term to be highlighted and scrolled to. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 11:24, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That's how that reads to me as well. --Izno (talk) 19:40, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I've edited the Problem statement (mostly J → I, plus some minor grammar improvements) to reflect this understanding (which is also how I read the origiinal). Trey314159 (talk) 17:38, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have also interpreted it this way and taken it a bit further to fill out all the other fields. Pinging Cinokat. Let us know know if we've misunderstood you. Thanks, MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 05:12, 27 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

When you google a phrase and then click on a link to a Wiki page, the page scrolls to the phrase and the phrase is highlighted. It is probably speicific to Google.com + Chrome browser but definitely a very useful feature. So I guess implementing similar functionality inside wiki engine is welcome. SSneg (talk) 09:49, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Google has two features for this. Their snippets do the highlighting, with text fragment highlighting. Next to Chrome, this is currently also in development for Safari, possibly shipping in Safari 16 later this year. In addition, they sometimes use sections results. Here, if they have a highlight in a particular section, they show the multiple subsections in the page (say History, Politics, Geography etc), and then if you click the result for such a section, it takes you there using a normal H2 anchor. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 16:46, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support Omidinist (talk) 19:04, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Would be a very useful addition as it will save having to do a browser search. Keith D (talk) 19:19, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 22:11, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support JopkeB (talk) 06:51, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Larshei (talk) 09:03, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Spiros71 (talk) 12:57, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support —Bruce1ee^talk 14:47, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — ElioPrrl (talk) 15:03, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --SSneg (talk) 21:15, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 23:24, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Uanfala (talk) 13:36, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support JAn Dudík (talk) 21:20, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Shooterwalker (talk) 22:19, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support With the amendment that there also needs to be a very prominent and obvious way to deactivate the highlighting. For those times on Wikipedia when you search for "insurance", then click on Actuary (48 occurrences) or Lloyd's of London (95 occurrences). FeRDNYC (talk) 22:54, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thanks, EDG 543 (message me) 14:40, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thingofme (talk) 14:56, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support useful Meikel1965 (talk) 21:05, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support It would be helpful for a lot of users, because some of the wikipedia pages are too large and it becomes very difficult to find needy contents so this feature will be helpful to find searched contents easily of a page. A.S. Universal (talk) 05:50, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support KingAntenor (talk) 06:58, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daniel Case (talk) 06:05, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Darwin ^Ahoy! 21:01, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good idea, but it´s realisation should be eg. a new button next to regular search result (for those who not want to scroll to search term) :) Tomáš Reichel (talk) 21:34, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Szymonel (talk) 21:36, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support —Thanks for the fish! ^{talk•contrib} (he/him) 21:57, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ayumu Ozaki (talk) 01:31, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ryse93 (talk) 12:50, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support I'm a fan, I think this would be useful —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 16:46, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rots61 (talk) 23:15, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Veracious (talk) 06:47, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support ~Cybularny ^Speak? 23:37, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Meiræ 22:11, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Forrestkirby (talk) 15:32, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Close the outdated WiViVi and reintegrate its key features into Wikimedia Stats

Edit proposal/discussion

Discussion

That is a wonderful wish Xavi, and I like the focus on giving visibility to minoritized languages. I will check in with the Data Engineering team to see if this is something we could get done with one wishlist cycle. KSiebert (WMF) (talk) 13:59, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Because WiViVi is outdated I created commons:File:Most popular edition of Wikipedia by country.svg. I used the existing API to do so and this fairly simple piece of code. Unfortunately, it needs to be updated regularly. As you can see, the image is used on several articles in many editions of Wikipedia so I guess this data is considered useful. I opened a Phabricator ticket in July 2020 about this feature request. An interactive map like WiViVi would be better to display countries where a language is not #1 but still often used. For instance French in Canada and Morocco, Romanian in Romania, English in Eastern Europe, etc. As @Xavier Dengra: said regional subdivisions would be great. I opened another Phabricator ticket for that in June 2021. Without regional subdivisions, the map lacks granularity and under-represent "small languages", as mentioned in the ticket: "we have a unit on the map for Malta with 0.4m inhabitants, but not for West Bengal with 180m inhabitants". A455bcd9 (talk) 07:38, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That's a great job, thank you for reaching out @A455bcd9! Creating automated maps via Commons to attach to articles is always a good idea, but in terms of basic communication, general awareness, research and data collection is not feasible. If there is a centralized option like Wikimedia Stats, which we all expect to be the "officially mantained" we cannot keep disseminating tools, patches and visualizations along the servers or repositories: neither the general public nor even most of wikipedians will find them. The depart of Erik Zachte and the "still-visible corps" of WiViVi sums up to the many examples of what shouldn't be repeated. There is not even a "last update" of the page and that leads to big confusion, therefore removing it or with a big outdated banner seem the only solution for me. For the interactive map, this is the Wikimedia Stats one that could integrate this Wish. However, it is worth to mention how unacceptable is the WM Stats current map: does not even include, for example, Andorra or San Marino in Europe, and forgets most of the states of the Pacific. At this point, several people in the world cannot even browse the views of Wikipedia in their country. Overall, a very anglocentric point of view not in line with the ongoing equity recommendations. Xavi Dengra (MESSAGES) 08:28, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I totally agree that everything should be on Wikimedia Stats, and the map I created is, I hope, only a temporary workaround in the absence of a good and officially maintained interactive map.

I think you could add the two Phabricator tickets I opened in your submission btw ("Phabricator tickets:") A455bcd9 (talk) 10:12, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done Xavier Dengra (MESSAGES) 23:31, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support Izno (talk) 23:59, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support War (talk) 04:16, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Aca (talk) 15:06, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support ♥Ainali ^talk_{contributions} 15:26, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support A455bcd9 (talk) 18:15, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Xavier Dengra (MESSAGES) 10:59, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support OwenBlacker (Talk) 11:17, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Bilorv (talk) 22:48, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wecoc (talk) 15:07, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Barcelona (talk) 22:28, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thingofme (talk) 14:57, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support KingAntenor (talk) 06:59, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Darwin ^Ahoy! 00:51, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Ciao • Bestoernesto • ✉ 02:15, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Vulp❯❯❯here! 08:59, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 10:00, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ayumu Ozaki (talk) 01:34, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Townie (talk) 15:22, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support A worthy addition to analytics I think. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 16:28, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Theklan (talk) 17:12, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Iñaki LL (talk) 20:30, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support -Veracious (talk) 06:47, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — DaxServer (t · c) 13:07, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Enable negation for tag filters

Edit proposal/discussion

Problem: When view feeds such as Special:Contributions or Special:RecentChanges we can currently filter by tags, but not by the negation of tags.
Proposed solution: Allow the negation operator ! in the tags filter (e.g. !mw-rollback), to filter out items tagged with said tag.
Who would benefit: Editors
More comments:
Phabricator tickets: phab:T119072, phab:T174349
Proposer: — xaosflux ^Talk 21:57, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

This would be very useful. I often miss having !mobile or !visualedit filters. MarioGom (talk) 08:24, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, it would be useful for filtering by not tags (like constructive edits or something like that), especially Wikidata. Thingofme (talk) 08:51, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Filtering out edits done by automated tools would also be helpful. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 20:22, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose this and go straight to Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Miscellaneous/Improve plain-text change tag selector instead. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 20:21, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 18:15, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Would be helpful to see reverted edit counts and stuff like that MrMeAndMrMe_{Let's talk} 18:20, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support * Pppery * _{it has begun} 18:54, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support As proposer! — xaosflux ^Talk 18:59, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Simple proposal, never realized how insanely useful this would be! Bristledidiot (talk) 19:03, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Arnd (talk) 20:04, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Kusurija (talk) 20:33, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 22:11, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lectrician1 (talk) 22:42, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sgd. —Hasley 23:14, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Izno (talk) 23:58, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support DonBarredora (talk) 00:50, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support 𝑇𝑚𝑣 (𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘) 07:19, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 07:34, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Celerias (talk) 11:01, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — ElioPrrl (talk) 11:11, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Hemantha (talk) 12:20, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 12:23, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — SHEIKH (Talk) 14:34, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support —Bruce1ee^talk 14:48, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Aca (talk) 15:05, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Definitely helps with watching for unchecked pages. Snævar (talk) 16:13, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Goombiis (talk) 22:26, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support ToBeFree (talk) 23:15, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nw520 (talk) 23:50, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support czar 00:00, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Pelagic (talk) 07:34, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support TheInternetGnome (talk) 08:27, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support SM5POR (talk) 12:22, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Titore (talk) 19:07, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Bilorv (talk) 22:48, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 23:25, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support I really want this to be possible -- I rarely want to search for a tag, but I often want to search for the negation of a tag. JPxG (talk) 00:59, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kimdorris (talk) 03:18, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support HugoHelp (talk) 04:23, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Teratix ₵ 07:00, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support NaBUru38 (talk) 13:06, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Trizek ^{from FR} 13:46, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support DoublePendulumAttractor (talk) 15:12, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hb2007 (talk) 15:33, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Matma Rex (talk) 16:31, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support IOIOI (talk) 21:02, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support stwalkerster (talk) 23:45, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Pp1011 (talk) 05:19, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Steven Sun (talk) 13:42, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Cabayi (talk) 14:45, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thingofme (talk) 14:56, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wargo (talk) 21:59, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — JJMC89 (T·C) 02:16, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Krol111 (talk) 20:48, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Oh yeah ~ Amory (u • t • c) 20:51, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support DanCherek (talk) 16:33, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kcomerfo (talk) 19:17, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daniel Case (talk) 06:04, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Darwin ^Ahoy! 19:47, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Szymonel (talk) 21:36, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 23:00, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rdr3141 (talk) 09:08, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support SD hehua (talk) 15:24, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Vulp❯❯❯here! 08:59, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support —Thanks for the fish! ^{talk•contrib} (he/him) 17:13, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ayumu Ozaki (talk) 01:28, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Patsagorn Y. (Talk) 08:29, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Brewster239 (T·C·CA) 10:53, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ryse93 (talk) 12:49, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rots61 (talk) 23:20, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support β₁₆ - (talk) 08:59, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — DaxServer (t · c) 13:06, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support ~Cybularny ^Speak? 23:36, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Valerio Bozzolan (talk) 17:16, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support -BRAINULATOR9 (TALK) 17:53, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Search bar with gear toggle

Edit proposal/discussion

Problem: There is no way to quickly configure different search results, with the toggle settings you can see a variety of results in the shortest time With this button, you can add a variety of suggested settings to the search bar to find the article or topic in the shortest time.
Proposed solution: Add a gear toggle to the Wikipedia search bar
Who would benefit: Readers, users, editors, and all people will benefit
More comments:
Phabricator tickets:
Proposer: Mohammad ebz (talk) 16:33, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Doesnt Special:Search have a whole host of different options for people ? I'm really confused about what these settings that you are proposing should be doing and why it would benefit users. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 13:22, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Mohammad ebz: I think I understand your problem, you want to be able to specify options when doing a search. It sounds like the workflow you are suggesting is:
1. Click on new gear Icon
2. Fill out search parameters
3. Click Search
If so, you may not be aware that this workflow is already available, for step 1: under the search box click "Search" without putting any values in the search box, this will then leave you at step 2 above. — xaosflux ^Talk 16:02, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Xaosflux But it is longer, it should be easier and more beautiful, it should open like a bootstrap model or a small window in the form of a tool Twinkle. مهدی بهرامی مطلق (talk) 07:41, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Xaosflux and TheDJ: I meant that when you type words in the search bar (of course I mean in the new search bar, which is not yet embedded in all Wikipedias and other wiki, {For example, you can try the new search bar on the French Wikipedia page}) the results are displayed in a certain order; The toggle tool, for example, makes it possible to arrange the preview of articles quickly, in fact the goal is to add much more useful features in the form of a small button next to the search bar (a useful part of the advanced search tool in it), In addition, the advanced search page has its proper use in its place, the goal is to facilitate the search based on the desired layout and simple and practical tools for the small menu at the top of each wiki page. It will take more time if we want to go to the advanced search page for simple searches (Remember that the overall purpose of this offer is to facilitate and speed up the search)

Similar to above, same number of clicks - if you click "Search" while the box is blank it shows the additional options, same as if you would click on a new "gear icon" - not sure what I'm missing here other than possible UI improvement? — xaosflux ^Talk 15:36, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Aside comment 1: Using Safari/iOS12 the new-Vector search box on w:fr: doesn't appear, just a right-aligned magnifying-glass icon. On iOS15 it is present and works as expected. I imagine there is some reason that it is disabled on certain older OSs? Is this going to affect future Vue.js widgets also? Pelagic (talk) 01:36, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Aside comment 2: Special:Search doesn't work for me on mobile/Minerva, it just renders the title “Search” with no text box or widgets. (Multiple OS, with and without AMC.) Pelagic (talk) 01:36, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
This page works [1], but without profile=advanced, this doesn't [2]. The latter is what I'm taken to if I do an empty search on mobile. Pelagic (talk) 02:00, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I filed phab:T300451 and phab:T300452 for this second issue. Pelagic (talk) 04:55, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support JopkeB (talk) 06:50, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Corn cheese (talk) 11:30, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support LengthyMer (talk) 05:43, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thingofme (talk) 14:56, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose KingAntenor (talk) 06:59, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Serg!o (talk) 11:25, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sounds useful Dswitz10734 (talk) 17:01, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daniel Case (talk) 06:05, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support MrMacduckinson (talk) 08:48, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Ciao • Bestoernesto • ✉ 02:12, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support —Thanks for the fish! ^{talk•contrib} (he/him) 17:14, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ayumu Ozaki (talk) 01:30, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support At this point (after several years of editing), I have a sense of how to go about searching, but I definitely think improvements like this can make it easier for new users and casual readers alike. paul2520 (talk) 17:55, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Gaurav (talk) 03:29, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It is doubtful I think the existing Special:Search does the job pretty well. So not sure if a gear would really help. - TheodoreIndiana (talk) 06:36, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]