Remove ID from autosuggest on search input form and add descriptions
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	Husky
	Apr 20 2022, 3:20 PM

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When searching for a tool (e.g. from the homepage) the suggestions now take the form

<id> (<name of tool>)

For example, when searching for 'depict' you get a suggestion list like this:

depicts (Common Depicts)
hay-depictor (Depictor)
wade (Wikidata Art Depiction Explorer)

Those ids are mainly used to provide an unique URL to the tool. I don't think it provides any value to the user displaying these in the autocomplete. Just give the name of the tool:

Commons Depicts
Depictor
Wikidata Art Depiction Explorer

Even better: also provide the short description in the autosuggest so people have a quick notion of what to expect:

Commons Depicts - displaying depictions of Wikidata items on Wikimedia Commons
Depictor - Add structured data statements to Wikimedia Commons using a game-like interface
Wikidata Art Depiction Explorer - Add depicts statements to works of art.

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Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
toolhub: Bump container version to 2022-05-17-072641-production	operations/deployment-charts	master	+1 -1
api: use title and description for autocomplete	wikimedia/toolhub	main	+2 -2
ui: use title and description for autocomplete	wikimedia/toolhub	main	+32 -12

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Mentioned In: T293191: Going from start to a link to a tool should be easier

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Husky created this task.Apr 20 2022, 3:20 PM

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Husky mentioned this in T293191: Going from start to a link to a tool should be easier.Apr 20 2022, 3:33 PM

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I don't think it provides any value to the user displaying these in the autocomplete.

Except when there are multiple tools with identical (or similar) Title.

Even better: also provide the short description in the autosuggest so people have a quick notion of what to expect

Descriptions can be up to 65535 characters in length, so I wouldn't call them short.

When I search for pywikibot the only way I know which one is correct (pywikibot) is the id. Putting the description in the search would help if I could edit the misleading toolforge-pywikibot entry.

@JJMC89: i could imagine that for the case you're mentioning here it might be useful to display the id *after* the title/description, although i can't estimate how big of a problem this actually is.

Concerning descriptions: you're right that they can be very long so they should probably be trimmed to 200 characters or so in the autocomplete box.

In T306542#7870551, @Husky wrote:

Concerning descriptions: you're right that they can be very long so they should probably be trimmed to 200 characters or so in the autocomplete box.

When the team talked about this earlier this week, we felt that line-clamping similar to what is currently done in the card view of a tool would be a reasonable approach to limiting the display of each description.

Change 785379 had a related patch set uploaded (by Raymond Ndibe; author: Raymond Ndibe):

[wikimedia/toolhub@main] api: use title and description for autocomplete

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/785379

Change 785380 had a related patch set uploaded (by Raymond Ndibe; author: Raymond Ndibe):

[wikimedia/toolhub@main] ui: use title and description for autocomplete

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/785380

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Change 785380 merged by jenkins-bot:

[wikimedia/toolhub@main] ui: use title and description for autocomplete

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/785380

Change 785379 merged by jenkins-bot:

[wikimedia/toolhub@main] api: use title and description for autocomplete

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/785379

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.May 8 2022, 12:30 AM

Change 792696 had a related patch set uploaded (by BryanDavis; author: Bryan Davis):

[operations/deployment-charts@master] toolhub: Bump container version to 2022-05-17-072641-production

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/792696

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.May 17 2022, 7:07 PM

Change 792696 merged by jenkins-bot: