User:Rainman/Bugs

Search-related feature requests from bugzilla.

Features

Go and search button are confusing (Bug 577)
"Did you mean . . ." search feature (Bug 974)
Extract embedded text from PDF/DjVu documents for search (Bug 6422, Bug 6421)
Search all languages (Bug 1837)
Restrict search by category, or set of categories (e.g. range of date categories) (Bug 2285)
Use Unicode Character Folding (Bug 4430)
Searching by date (created, last modified) (Bug 1871)
Allow searching in intersections, etc. of categories (Bug 5244)
Smart handling for page requests for [[articles]] and {{templates}} (Bug 6334)

Suggest noinclude tag so pages aren't listed in search index (Bug 5778)
Search only searched for complete words by default, not for subpatterns (PrefixQuery search disabled) (Bug 4021)
List most popular queries on search page (Bug 7866)
Special page listing failed searches (Bug 7969)
Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia search box (Bug 5101)
Image page search results should include thumbnails (probably solved via toolserver) (Bug 2815)
Soundex search option (soundlike for wiktionary) (Bug 3140)
search for images/files by hash (probably solved on toolserver) (Bug 1459)
Most wanted articles - We can't see "Go" misses (Bug 3437, Bug 6373)

Namespace flags, when set, should be honored for the entire search page (Bug 1953)
Namespace search options don't appear consistently (two search boxes, one for ns_main, one for selected namespaces) (Bug 8149)
Search should pay more attention to the number of results (Bug 3431)

--Rainman 19:32, 16 January 2007 (UTC)