So the issue seems to be that we are assuming people search for messages, not projects?

In T149521#3971027, @Nikerabbit wrote:

So the issue seems to be that we are assuming people search for messages, not projects?

That's arguably the biggest problem, yes.

I'd be happy with having a search link somewhere that takes me to Special:Search. That would at least provide a sensible navigation option that people can use if they don't see what they want on the main page. At the moment, if I'm on the main page and want to do anything other than search for translations or go to one of the handful of linked pages, I end up clicking a random link to get to the normal interface, because I'm not sure what else to do.

Necro-posting a little:

Reported by Keunes:

finding & 'joining' a project's team is not easy-as-in-your-face: when searching on the homepage for "lib.reviews" you get a page with "0 results found".

If I now searchthe keyword again in the Vector search bar, I reach a search which doesn't include the "Translating" namespace.

Seems like a good problem to solve. After seeing that https://translatewiki.net/wiki/lib.reviews exists as a redirect, I thought it would be a good idea to do it by prompting people to create similar redirects for projects via a preload: https://translatewiki.net/?diff=12755738&oldid=11138826 But maybe it is easier to just include Translating namespace into the list of the default search namespaces, since it currently isn’t. The Translating namespace does not have a lot of pages and seeing Translating:Convenient Discussions for the generic search for the project name would be good, in case people actually do search like that. It pops up in Vector 2022 suggestions but on a regular search page, it does not: https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Search&search=Convenient+Discussions

@Nikerabbit what do you think about it (tl;dr including Translating namespace in default search namespaces)?

Or just move everything to the main namespace? More work but I don't think we actually need a separate namespace for the project pages.

That said, I have some doubts how many people try to search for a specific project this way.

The search config change would probably be easier to do in that regard then, and requires less action.