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Retain search query when switching to Special:Search via banner notice
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Description

When you perform a search, the gray box at the top says "Looking for Special:Search?" (MediaWiki:Mediasearch-user-notice-title) Clicking on the link in that just opens a blank Special:Search page, though, removing your query. The "Switch to Special:Search" link in the upper right (MediaWiki:Mediasearch-switch-special-seach [sic]) works much better, preserving your query. Could we get the gray box link to do the same?

Search-media-Wikimedia-Commons-12-22-2025_02_30_PM.png (378×1 px, 83 KB)

Reported on-wiki here.

Event Timeline

Change #1222280 had a related patch set uploaded (by TheDJ; author: TheDJ):

[mediawiki/extensions/MediaSearch@master] Add search term in Special:Search link of usernotice

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1222280

Change #1226374 had a related patch set uploaded (by SarthakSingh2904; author: SarthakSingh2904):

[mediawiki/extensions/MediaSearch@master] Preserve search query in user notice Special:Search link

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1226374

Change #1226377 had a related patch set uploaded (by SarthakSingh2904; author: SarthakSingh2904):

[mediawiki/extensions/MediaSearch@master] Preserve search query in user notice Special:Search link

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1226377

Change #1226374 abandoned by SarthakSingh2904:

[mediawiki/extensions/MediaSearch@master] Preserve search query in user notice Special:Search link

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1226374