When using type "search" or "fulltext" one gets the namespace selection box like e.g. here. However if I click on "Content pages" shortcut at the top of the box like e.g. there the namespace selection box is hidden.
To cut it short: How do I direct the search to e.g. the Content namespaces. I am asking because on a mobile skin we get about 15 to 20 cm of box shown before any possible result which is just overdoing things.
This seems to be impossible, at the moment. (To use specific keywords: You're asking for a way to make any searches (not just through the InputBox extension) send you to the "Content" tab (&profile=default) instead of the "Advanced" tab (&profile=advanced)
The tab you end up on, is based on whether we individually (as logged-in users), have ever selected the checkbox "Remember selection for future searches" in the "Advanced" search tab. -- You can confirm this by doing a test search in a Private/Incognito window.
I've filed phab:T170011 with the request for a method to reset it. (I believe it might still be possible by resetting all user-preferences. But that's obviously not optimal.)
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Semi-related: There's ongoing work at m:WMDE Technical Wishes/AdvancedSearch to rethink the Advanced Search - both making it clearer, and making more of the advanced functionality easier to use. I'll send a note to one of the people working on it, with your points, and ask if there are separate mockups for the mobile UI, yet. Thanks!
Thanks a lot for your extensive reply which is as much appreciated as creating the task on phabricator as well as making discovery/wmde aware of the need for a mobile specific path.
Indeed if you are not logged in the namespace selection box is not shown. However if you are logged in the namespace selection box is shown even if you did not check "Remember selection for future search"
I kinda expected that it is currently not possible to do this. As a first step it will probably by nice if the namespace selection box may be toggled with a collapsed view by default.
