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Search page should offer choice of namespaces in a more ranked fashion
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On advanced search (and perhaps other places) all namespaces are listed without regard to their relative prominence within the wiki. Users get frustrated when they search through a lengthy list of namespaces many of which are devoid of content.

Suggestion is to have several lists, eg "Content namespaces", "Top-10 namespaces", "Talk namespaces", "Other namespaces".

It'd be great if the namespaces listed in "Content namespaces" would match the wiki-specific configuration per $wgContentNamespaces, and the "Top-10" namespaces were ones rank ordered by their size or popularity statistics.

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 11:51 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-User-Interface.
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Hypergrove created this task.Jul 25 2011, 8:16 PM
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Quiddity moved this task from To triage to Special:LinkSearch on the MediaWiki-Special-pages board.Sep 8 2016, 10:51 PM
Krinkle renamed this task from Ranked search spaces to Search page should offer choice of namespaces in a more ranked fashion.Aug 14 2018, 8:39 PM
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• EBjune added a project: Advanced-Search.Aug 16 2018, 5:12 PM
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Removing Discovery-Search and adding Advanced-Search

thiemowmde removed a project: TCB-Team (now WMDE-TechWish).Nov 2 2020, 8:36 AM
Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:00 AM
TheDJ moved this task from Backlog to Search interface on the MediaWiki-Search board.Sep 6 2025, 8:52 PM
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TheDJ added a comment.Sep 18 2025, 10:35 PM

Related to T184850: Hide unused namespaces in Advanced-Search menu

thiemowmde closed this task as Resolved.Sep 30 2025, 12:01 PM
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Isn't this long solved with the Advanced-Search interface? There are predefined sets of namespaces (e.g. all talk namespaces) as well as a quick search feature. That even accepts numeric namespace ids as well as canonical English namespace names on non-English wikis.

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