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Wiki Search interface

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Graeme Geldenhuys

Hi,

Maybe it's just be, but the Wiki Search is confusing - just not that obviously to me. And I am a native English speaker. What's the difference between clicking "Go" and clicking "Search"?

Maybe it's some sort of fail-over or search redundency feature? See attached image. ;-)

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- Graeme -

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Vincent Snijders
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Graeme Geldenhuys wrote 5 lines
Hi, Maybe it's just be, but the Wiki Search is confusing - just not that obviously to me. And I am a native English speaker. What's the difference between clicking "Go" and clicking "Search"?

Go goes to the page with the title you just type. Try for example with Bounties. If it fails, because there is no such title, it does a search

Search searches the wiki for the search term in page titles and page content and displays a search result pages.

Maybe it's some sort of fail-over or search redundency feature? See attached image. ;-)

Click reduction feature.

Vincent

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Graeme Geldenhuys
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Vincent Snijders wrote
Go goes to the page with the title you just type. Try for example with Bounties. If it fails, because there is no such title, it does a search

Ah, a not so obvious feature! Thanks for the explanation. Maybe some help text explaining this, under the search box could be justified?

Regards,
- Graeme -

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Vincent Snijders
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Graeme Geldenhuys wrote 7 lines
On 03/07/2008, Vincent Snijders wrote: > Go goes to the page with the title you just type. Try for example with > Bounties. If it fails, because there is no such title, it does a search Ah, a not so obvious feature! Thanks for the explanation. Maybe some help text explaining this, under the search box could be justified?

Maybe. Please check on wikipedia if the current mediawiki version is still so unclear to you. If so, create a mediawiki bug report / feature request.

Vincent

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Graeme Geldenhuys
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Vincent Snijders wrote
Maybe. Please check on wikipedia if the current mediawiki version is still so unclear to you. If so, create a mediawiki bug report / feature request.

The difference is that Wikipedia has tooltips explaining the difference. Lazarus Wiki doesn't, so on Lazarus it's not obvious at all. Having the tooltips in Lazarus wiki will resolve the issue. :)

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- Graeme -

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Vincent Snijders
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Graeme Geldenhuys wrote 9 lines
On 03/07/2008, Vincent Snijders wrote: > Maybe. Please check on wikipedia if the current mediawiki version is > still so unclear to you. If so, create a mediawiki bug report / feature > request. The difference is that Wikipedia has tooltips explaining the difference. Lazarus Wiki doesn't, so on Lazarus it's not obvious at all. Having the tooltips in Lazarus wiki will resolve the issue. :)

AFAIK, I did not turn them off explicitly, but they may been lost, because our wiki uses a different .css. I don't know to enable them.

Vincent

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