Help talk:MediaSearch

Latest comment: 4 months ago by Prototyperspective in topic Search for recently uploaded images

so this is the feedback page for Media Search?

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If not, please indicate a feedback page on the other side. Herzi Pinki (talk) 21:43, 6 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

@Keegan (WMF): maybe this is not the right place? Herzi Pinki (talk) 08:31, 11 January 2021 (UTC)Reply
In the future, please leave MediaSearch feedback at at the talk page on Commons.
I've noted this on the other side as well. Thanks! CBogen (WMF) (talk) 19:59, 22 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
Hello CBogen, the note on the MediaSearch page is not visible enough to stop me coming here to look for feedback. You could enlarge it and put it on a hatnote, but better again would be to prevent people being redirected here... On the new search near the upper left we have options:
Switch to Special:Search | Help
Add to that..." | Feedback"
RTG (talk) 01:07, 17 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

MediaSearch does not respect file name / description changes

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see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaSearch?type=bitmap&q=Matterhorngletscher the file File:Aus der Hörnlihütte.jpg is the result of a rename, as the name and the description have been wrong. But it is still found by MediaSearch, although as far as I can see, only the redirect could be the reason for that.

Sometimes a file is renamed, because the name indicates the wrong thing. After such a rename, MediaSearch should not find the file by the old term. I would skip the evaluation of redirects / renames from MediaSearch, as there always should be a reason to rename, renaming normally is a refinement, and SDC are not touched automatically by a file rename. Herzi Pinki (talk) 21:49, 6 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

I find that the tool does not work well for languages other than English. I blogged about it and would REALLY like a way that is optimised for global use. Thanks, GerardM (talk) 13:14, 27 April 2021 (UTC) GerardM (talk) 13:14, 27 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

organizational non-content categories; wikidata

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Under tab Categories and pages I find commons:User:OgreBot/Uploads by new users/2019 February 07 18:00. This is silly.

And I do not find Wikidata entries at all. Herzi Pinki (talk) 14:31, 7 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

Community assessments

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It's disappointing to see that no one ever replied to the thread below asking for an appropriate place to provide feedback—for a feature like this, working with the community is essential—but I'm going to go ahead and leave a piece of feedback here anyways, and courtesy ping @Keegan/@Keegan (WMF).

When I'm looking for a high-quality image for a given search, I don't really care if it's a Quality Image or a Featured Picture or a Valued Image; I just want something that's any of those. It would be very helpful to have an option under the community assessments menu for any elevated assessment, rather than having to search three times. Sdkbtalk 01:00, 15 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

Thanks. I've filed this in phab:T285349. CBogen (WMF) (talk) 19:59, 22 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

Creating red categories

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Another piece of feedback: When searching for a category that does not exist, the new search does not seem to offer any link to create it. Sdkbtalk 01:49, 15 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the feedback. We are looking into this and you can track it in T285168.
In the future, please leave MediaSearch feedback at at the talk page on Commons. CBogen (WMF) (talk) 19:49, 22 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
@CBogen (WMF), thanks! I'm glad these both have a phab task and that the feedback link is now added to the help page here. Sdkbtalk 21:07, 22 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

[BUG?] No results when searching for Yuri Beletsky

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try searching this name. MediaSearch finds 0 results, but classic search is working. RoyZuo (talk) 07:39, 20 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

Alejandro Mos Riera, another example. RoyZuo (talk) 07:50, 20 September 2021 (UTC)Reply
I tested it and it found nothing. Strangely, if I put it into quotation marks, MediaSearch does find results as expected.
As a side note, I have made the title more descriptive. Elominius (talk) 10:25, 20 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

No results for "woman"?

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No matter what I type in for Wikimedia Commons, I get no results. Not even for a generic term like "woman". What's up? 95.90.241.52 (talk) 16:16, 10 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

Search for recently uploaded images

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Hi, with this request I meant to search for recently uploaded images that match "Kathmandu":

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Kathmandu&title=Special:MediaSearch&go=page&type=image&sort=recency

But the results mostly have nothing at all to do with Kathmandu. How come? Till.niermann (talk) 07:26, 3 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Strange, good question. Maybe that word is somewhere in the file descriptions like the uploader name. You can use the categories to achieve what you meant to do using the deepcategory search operator, see here. Prototyperspective (talk) 10:06, 3 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for the hint, I wasn't aware of this option. But my goal was to find recently uploaded files that have "Kathmandu" somewhere in the description (or the file name), and do not have a category associated with Category:Kathmandu. It's not that important, but the search results just made me wonder how this could be. As far as I can tell, the file pages in the result don't contain this text, at least not in Latin script. Till.niermann (talk) 12:25, 3 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
Interesting, I think there is a way to search the description in specific but I couldn't find info on how which seems missing so I asked about it here. Prototyperspective (talk) 12:38, 3 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
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