Requests for comment/Improve search

We should improve search.

Request for comment (RFC)
Improve search
Component General
Creation date
Author(s) MZMcBride
Document status in draft

Potential improvements

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  • Make search user interface suck less
    • phabricator:T103637 – Consider auto-completing of "insource:" and other magic prefixes when using search inputs (perhaps similar to Gerrit)
  • Reactivate cross-wiki search across Wikimedia wikis
    • phabricator:T109957 – Restore cross-wiki (interwiki) search across all public Wikimedia wikis
  • Add regex support to intitle
  • Make search indices more accessible and usable