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Hard to select namespaces

6 comments • 10:02, 7 May 2019 7 months ago
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YBG (talkcontribs)

it is really hard to select namespaces. Two ideas for improvement:

  1. Put the [x] box on the left hand side of the namespace. That way, if you want to delete a consecutive bunch of namespaces, it is just a matter of clicking multiple times in the same position.
  2. Change the drop-down into a two-column table format so that all of the talk pages are on the same line as their non-talk partner. Then you could scan the list much easier.

Thanks for considering!

Reply 00:30, 13 July 2018 1 year ago
Gryllida (talkcontribs)

I like the second idea. It is really helpful.

Reply 23:18, 5 August 2018 1 year ago
MichaelSchoenitzer (talkcontribs)

I realised this by adding the following CSS to my common.css:

.mw-advancedSearch-ui-itemMenuOptionWidget {
    display: inline-block;
    width: 46%;
    border-top: none;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #c8ccd1;
}
Reply Edited by Spas.Z.Spasov 10:02, 7 May 2019 7 months ago
Michael Schönitzer (WMDE) (talkcontribs)

Thank you for this feedback – it's very valuable for us! We will investigate possible improvements of the namespace-selector. Are there some combinations of namespaces that you use very often?

Reply 18:17, 13 July 2018 1 year ago
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YBG (talkcontribs)

Can't think of any namespace combos. But I did think of another feature - it would be really nice to be able to exclude subpages, either in all selected namespaces or perhaps on a namespace-by-namespace basis. There may be a way to do it now, but I haven't been able to figure out how.

Reply 21:03, 13 July 2018 1 year ago
Michael Schönitzer (WMDE) (talkcontribs)

I think it's currently not possible to exclude subpages. You can propose this to the Wikimedia Search Platform. They build the search, we just build the user-interface.

Reply 14:17, 17 July 2018 1 year ago
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