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Add way to simplesearch for adding multiple "containing..." style blocks.
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Description

We currently have: "Containing..." in the search drop down. I think it would be a good idea to be able to add additional block(s) there.

Primary function that I have in mind would be to add a: "Search Wikipedia Help" Apparently people have a lot of trouble actually "searching" our help pages. They don't easily arrive at the "advanced" tab of the search page, they miss the "Help" link in the toolbar etc..

I think it is crucially to provide proper search ability of our Help and guidelines pages and this might help.


Version: 1.22.0
Severity: enhancement

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bz52213

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 2:00 AM
bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Search.
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Help containing

Is my "help containing.png" the kind of thing you are thinking of?

Another option would be to include the Help namespace in the default prefix search so a search for "editing" will include "Help:Editing."

The second one is probably more easy to implement but would shove help articles into the user's face a bit more aggressively.

I dunno if the search box is where people go for help, but it could certainly help them find it.

Attached:

help_containing.png (351×335 px, 29 KB)

Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:13 AM