Discussion of this has stemmed out of [[s:WS:S#Abatement of the 'Author' Code]] and this change has been proposed at [[s:WS:S#Default search to include Authors]].

jeluf wrote:

Please decide within your community whether you want to have just the author namespace added to wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault or wether you want to add all (including talk??) namespaces.

The community wants the default search results to include Author pages.

I mentioned "all" as a possible technical detail to ensure the desired results appear at the top, however I have done some further testing, and including other namespaces doesnt appear to improve the ranking of Author pages, so please consider that option discarded.

jeluf wrote:

Done.

Changed to:

'enwikisource' => array(
-1 => 0,
0 => 1, 1 => 0,
2 => 0, 3 => 0,
4 => 0, 5 => 0,
6 => 0, 7 => 0,
8 => 0, 9 => 0,
10 => 0, 11 => 0,
12 => 0, 13 => 0,
102 => 1 ),

Marking old verified bugs as closed