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add a help link in the search box
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Author: catlow

Description:
Instead of (or preferably as well as) having a link to help on search from the search results page, how about a help button on the search box itself (for example, next to the word "search", or under the Go and Search buttons).


Version: 1.21.x
Severity: enhancement

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bz21391

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 10:48 PM
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We've been thinking of placing the help link like for [[Special:Contributions]] (with span id "coordinates"). We'd need a mediawiki page similar to [[MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-explain]] to specify the link.

Sounds like a job for the Usability Team!

Moving to the Usability component so this bug will pop up in our list.

Also add a div id for the new mediawiki page (so we can hide it).

No activity in over 10 years and I'd hope that search is pretty self-explanatory at this point. cc @alexhollender in case there's anything here we can salvage for the new search experience.