rainman wrote:

Link?

subscription wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Dollar+Index&sourceid=Mozilla-search

subscription wrote:

I apologize--scrolling down reveals adequate search results. My mistake.

Paul

rainman wrote:

You have a point however, those horrible whole-screen misleading messages really need to go...

Customized en.wikipedia.org message:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Dollar+Index&sourceid=Mozilla-search

vs MediaWiki default message (forced to en_GB):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Dollar+Index&sourceid=Mozilla-search&uselang=en-gb

The default message adds just two lines from the 'go' search mode:

No page title matches
There is no page titled "Dollar Index". You can create this page.

then followed by *actual page text search results*.

The English Wikipedia customized message is followed by a giant pagefull of links to things you could do. On my laptop screen (1280x800) I can only see 4 pixels' worth of the first actual result at the bottom of the screen, which is the exact target a searcher would be looking for.

The giant list of links should, if needed *at all*, probably only be shown if you got no search results.

This seems like a local mediawiki message issue, not a software one.

It's an issue which affects usability of the site -- it doesn't matter whose "fault" it is.

It may well be that changing how we handle the case more appropriately can be done with changes to the software which would discourage the crappy make-the-message-gigantic behavior on English Wikipedia. Or, maybe we just have to beat some people on the head and fix the message.

I don't see any such message any longer?

Yeah, there is no longer any "pagefull of links to things you could do". It actually might be useful if it did encourage action (e.g. making it easier to create a page).

See https://github.com/mattflaschen/CreateFromSearch for something I've worked on with E3.

But since there's no long message right now, I'm marking fixed.

Screenshots are helpful for this kind of bug.

(In reply to comment #9)

Yeah, there is no longer any "pagefull of links to things you could do". It
actually might be useful if it did encourage action (e.g. making it easier to
create a page).

See https://github.com/mattflaschen/CreateFromSearch for something I've
worked
on with E3.

In a Wikimania 2011 (?) workshop on interwikis/cross-wiki issues, the recommendation emerged to make the createpage (?) message, shown as placeholder when the page doesn't exist, suggest to read (or translate) the same article on another wiki. It's not that easy, though; maybe the proposal should be filed as bug dependent on bug 44420.

(In reply to Nemo from comment #10)

In a Wikimania 2011 (?) workshop on interwikis/cross-wiki issues, the
recommendation emerged to make the createpage (?) message, shown as
placeholder when the page doesn't exist, suggest to read (or translate) the
same article on another wiki. It's not that easy, though; maybe the proposal
should be filed as bug dependent on bug 44420.

See bug 24767.