What about "fulltext search for ..."? The suggestions in the list are all title matches, while the last entry allows you to additionally search the action text content.

What about "fulltext search for ..."?

Good idea imho

For the most part, this is changing the searchsuggest-containing i18n key to a different value, should be pretty easy. The open question is if that's the right thing to do. @CKoerner_WMF is going to check into that.

As @EBernhardson points out, this is a relatively easy change from a technical perspective. However, I think it's best that we have a conversation with the communities to discuss this change before making it.

The Special:Search page that 'containing...' links to gets about 2 million visits a day on English Wikipedia. Folks are finding it! :) If a change is made we should also consider the implications in other languages.

https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3ATranslations&message=searchsuggest-containing&namespace=8

I'd suggest Jan, as the proposer, reach out to gain consensus before we make any change. It might also be worthwhile to post to the translators-l mailing list. Non-English-native speakers might have better suggestions!

Personal two cents: Not many humans know what "fulltext' is. I'd suggest something more approachable like "search for pages containing..." or similar.

– makes sense to me. I'll ask on the translators mailinglist; for a decision for (or against) a solution in any kind, I lack the quantitative and qualitatitve data.

I'd avoid the term "fulltext", which most people won't know about.

What about just something like “All search results for foobar”?

In T141244#2547965, @Mormegil wrote:

What about just something like “All search results for foobar”?

Might work, though users who think the autocompleted titles above are search results too may be confused. We could simplify to "Search foobar", which would be consistent with monobook as well (go vs. search).

@Nemo_bis:

Interesting point – what do users understand as "search" vs. "go"; "go" may be better or worse in that case (but maybe we can find some research out there, search is a pretty common thing…)

About the confusion: I suppose the all signifies already that there will be more/different results (although rather vaguely.)

In T141244#2552593, @Jan_Dittrich wrote:

About the confusion: I suppose the all signifies already that there will be more/different results (although rather vaguely.)

Yes, you're right. Something like "(see) more/all (search) results" may work for most users in many languages, with some care for effective translation.

In T141244#2552593, @Jan_Dittrich wrote:

@Nemo_bis:

Interesting point – what do users understand as "search" vs. "go"; "go" may be better or worse in that case (but maybe we can find some research out there, search is a pretty common thing…)

When Wikimedia sites switched from Monobook to Vector in 2010, I immediately missed the Go button. I had remembered how I loved it when I began using Wikipedia in 2004.

Took me time to realize that not everybody necessarily thinks as I do.

People are diverse, and what different people think about it should be found out by real research and not by guesses and assumptions.

In T141244#2505208, @CKoerner_WMF wrote:

As @EBernhardson points out, this is a relatively easy change from a technical perspective. However, I think it's best that we have a conversation with the communities to discuss this change before making it.

The Special:Search page that 'containing...' links to gets about 2 million visits a day on English Wikipedia. Folks are finding it! :) If a change is made we should also consider the implications in other languages.

https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3ATranslations&message=searchsuggest-containing&namespace=8

This is an important page to explore, but note that some projects may have customized it locally. The Hebrew translation in the code is "כולל" ("containing"), but in the Hebrew Wikipedia it's "חיפוש במנוע החיפוש הפנימי", which is "search in the internal search engine".

I'd actually like to try to change it back it to the default ("containing") because the current wording is too long and repetitive and I have no reason to think that it's clear to all users. But it's crucial to have a way to measure the impact, for example how many people used the feature before and after the change. Just counting the visits to Special:Search is probably not enough, and it would be useful to know that this particular search box feature was used.