Topic on Talk:Structured Data Across Wikimedia/Search Improvements

Hi, let me share some thoughts on the presented mockups:

• Article thumbnail: ok, but may be disturbing for experienced users that use the search for scanning the article text for syntax mistakes using insource and regexp search etc. As long as the thumbs are hideable by user css, it could be fine.
• Namespace tags: Please no, makes copying from the search results harder and breaks consistency. In the normal page title there are also no namespace tags, links are not displayed with namespace tags, ... Making it easier to distinguish between various page types may be somehow a global goal for MediaWiki, but I don't see why this should be forced only in the search results.
• Rearrange the sister search section: ok
• Collapse advance search: Please no. The advanced search is already collapsed, collapsing the collapsing switch again frees up just ~30px with almost no impact on the amount of search results shown as you can already see in the mockups. In expanded mode, it even takes more space as there is an additional collapsing toggle. It's unnecessary extra clicks and workflow interruption.
• Introduce a quick-view panel, Re-style metadata, New location for “create missing article”, Change the color of the “did you know” suggestion: ok

Hey @Hgzh, thank you very much for your feedback. I'll report your suggestions to the dev team right away!

Hello @Hgzh, I got a couple of questions for you from the dev team:

1. can you please explain what do you mean with "makes copying from the search results harder and breaks consistency" (re: namespace tags)? Our developers would like to know in particular what parts of the results are being copied and for what purposes.
2. can you please explain what do you mean with "using insource and regexp search etc." (re: article thumbnails)? This wasn't exactly clear as a use case, and our developers would like to know more.

This might be interesting to know for the development of this particular feature. Thanks a lot for your feedback, it is really useful!

Hi @Sannita (WMF), with copying I mean copying the page title of a search result to the clipboard for using it as a wikilink somewhere else, e.g. in discussions or on a project page. I assume that the namespace tags would break that. I hope that makes my concern more clear.

@Hgzh Thanks! I edited the message with another question coming from the devs, can you please look at it too? Thanks a lot!

When using the regexp search, I want to focus on mistakes etc. in the wikitext, the article that contains the wikitext is not relevant in this case (see :de:Benutzer:Hgzh/Kleinigkeiten for some regexp searches I perform every now and then). Then the image thumbnails would be distracting from my actual goal to scan the search result's wikitext.