Search/Old/Design

Search everything!

We want to ensure that the rich & variety

of content, resources, and community on

Wikipedia & Wikimedia are accurately reflected.

Never a dead end.

Content flaunt

 * Exact search keyword match first, always regardless of language, priority given to current WP language used.
 * Results within articles
 * Results in other WP languages
 * Faceted search results (Wikiprojects, namespaces, categories, length of article, # of contributors)
 * Results from other sister projects
 * Other suggestions

Did you mean..?

 * If user searches for a vague search term, show suggestions to specify the subject they are looking for.


 * If user searches for a search term with potential typographical error, show suggestions of what they could be looking for.


 * E.g.:
 * Search for “Monef"
 * Did you mean “Monet”?
 * Results within articles of all language Wikipedia
 * Results of similar keywords: “Monet," “Money,” etc.
 * Call to action to create a draft “Monef” article
 * A link to Articles for Creation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation

Too much information!

 * If search term results in a large amount of information, organize the results with faceted search by:


 * Namespaces
 * Wikiprojects
 * Categories
 * Length of article
 * Number of contributors
 * etc.

But.. if I got nothing?

 * Search term has no result on Wikipedia, surface results from other sister projects and related searches.


 * Search term has no result from Wikimedia either, suggest to create the article and show the support available from community in making that happen.


 * E.g.:
 * Search for “Aegyo Sal”
 * No results found in any Wikimedia projects
 * Call to action to create a draft “Aegyo Sal” article
 * A link to Articles for Creation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation