Author: conrad.irwin
Description:
It would be nice if the namespaces available to be searched could be customised easily, either by the server-folk or the wiki's Sysops.
I envisage a $wgSearchNamespaces to deprecate $wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault and $wgNamespacesToBeSearchedHelp in favour of a more flexible configuration
(A Wiktionarian suggested that they'd like:
$wgSearchNamespaces = array(
'dictionary' => array( NS_MAIN ), 'thesaurus' => array( 110 ), 'appendices' => array( 100, 102, 106 ), 'help-project' => array( NS_HELP, NS_PROJECT ), 'everything' => SEARCH_ALL, 'custom' => SEARCH_CUSTOM
);
Obviously, being able to remove the Multimedia option is useful for any site that uses commons for all its media; and adding options is beneficial for any site with custom namespaces)
An alternative would be a set-up like [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] where the message can be read and parsed (and cached!) - would require less precious sysadmin time.
This might be possible using an extension to Hook into 'SpecialSearchProfiles', but it would be cleaner to fix SpecialSearch::getSearchProfiles() directly (particularly for a configuration variable).
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38395
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61053