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Several people mentioned that they did not or only after longer time understand that you have to click into the namespace-field to get the menu to choose namespaces.
They thought, that it is necessary to click on 'all' and then remove all namespaces not wanted.

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Add dropdown indicator to namespace selection field	mediawiki/extensions/AdvancedSearch	master	+1 -0
	Adding placeholder text to namespace selection field	mediawiki/extensions/AdvancedSearch	master	+5 -1

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Mentioned In: T177928: Consider adding a dropdown arrow for OOjs UI's MenuTagMultiselectWidget
rEASRbcdac2c6bc54: Add dropdown indicator to namespace selection field
rEASR765ac4c4f83c: Adding placeholder text to namespace selection field
Mentioned Here: T181296: Find better input method for "These words", "Not these words", "One of these Words" and "Exactly this text"
T177928: Consider adding a dropdown arrow for OOjs UI's MenuTagMultiselectWidget

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• MichaelSchoenitzer_WMDE created this task.Dec 4 2017, 10:55 PM

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Could be resolved by T177928 which is currently on the plate of the OOUI folks.

Agreed. I would wait for T177928 to be resolved before further investigating this. I'm fairly certain it should solve the issue.

This is what the original mock looked like. For now we could also add the placeholder until the arrow is ready.

Using this TagMultiselectWidget (allowArbitrary, inline input, placeholder) widget, so that the placeholder doesn't get removed when a namespace has been entered like so

• Lea_WMDE triaged this task as Medium priority.Dec 13 2017, 11:42 AM

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Tobi_WMDE_SW added a project: WMDE-QWERTY-Sprint-2017-12-13.Dec 13 2017, 2:17 PM

To match a uniform text style we should change the placeholder text to Add namespaces

See this ticket T181296 (I have not updated it yet --14.12.)

Change 398245 had a related patch set uploaded (by Tobias Gritschacher; owner: Tobias Gritschacher):
[mediawiki/extensions/AdvancedSearch@master] Adding placeholder text to namespace selection field

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/398245

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Dec 14 2017, 12:02 PM

Tobi_WMDE_SW mentioned this in rEASR765ac4c4f83c: Adding placeholder text to namespace selection field.Dec 14 2017, 12:03 PM

Change 398251 had a related patch set uploaded (by Tobias Gritschacher; owner: Tobias Gritschacher):
[mediawiki/extensions/AdvancedSearch@master] Add dropdown indicator to namespace selection field

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/398251

Tobi_WMDE_SW mentioned this in rEASRbcdac2c6bc54: Add dropdown indicator to namespace selection field.Dec 14 2017, 1:04 PM

Tobi_WMDE_SW mentioned this in T177928: Consider adding a dropdown arrow for OOjs UI's MenuTagMultiselectWidget.Dec 14 2017, 1:11 PM

Tobi_WMDE_SW moved this task from Sprint Backlog to Doing on the WMDE-QWERTY-Sprint-2017-12-13 board.Dec 14 2017, 1:23 PM

• Lea_WMDE moved this task from Sprint ready to Currently in sprint on the WMDE-TechWish board.Dec 14 2017, 2:12 PM

• Lea_WMDE moved this task from Backlog to Doing (others) on the Advanced-Search board.Dec 15 2017, 10:52 AM

Tobi_WMDE_SW moved this task from Doing to Review on the WMDE-QWERTY-Sprint-2017-12-13 board.Dec 15 2017, 11:24 AM

Change 398245 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/AdvancedSearch@master] Adding placeholder text to namespace selection field

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/398245

Change 398251 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/AdvancedSearch@master] Add dropdown indicator to namespace selection field

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/398251

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Tobi_WMDE_SW closed this task as Resolved.Jan 9 2018, 12:50 PM

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• Lea_WMDE moved this task from Done to Demoed on the WMDE-TechWish board.Feb 20 2018, 3:32 PM

• Lea_WMDE moved this task from Doing (others) to In FUN sprint on the Advanced-Search board.Dec 4 2018, 9:11 AM

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