This ticket is part of the EPIC T383055
Look at the current sorting options available in the autocomplete list so that we can determine if we want to improve anything with the way things are sorted to improve discoverability of categories
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T383055 [Epic - Q3 hypothesis] Improve category selection in Upload Wizard | |||
| Resolved | matthiasmullie | T383731 [SPIKE] Investigate how the autocomplete matches are sorted in categories field in upload wizard |
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The initial search results are a prefix search (any category title that starts with your input) and then further scores results based on:
- the amount of incoming links to that page (more popular pages score higher)
- some templates within that category (e.g. results with 'Template:Quality image', 'Template:Valued image' score better; results with 'Template:Deletion template tag' score worse)
The latter is more relevant for files; not for categories. So basically: sorted by search relevance first (e.g. exact match scores better), then further refined by "popularity" (in terms of incoming links to that category)
The prefixsearch API doesn't really allow other sorting mechanisms, but this seems like a pretty sensible approach to me anyway.
Closing as this resolves the answer (no other options are readily available); feel free to re-open in case there are more questions.