Last modified: 2008-06-29 03:28:37 UTC
There are two text entry bars on the search page, one near the top and one near the button, each with their own submit buttons. Only the bottom bar seems to respect the namespace flags. For example, if I select "Category" and deselect (Main) and Mediawiki talk:, then type "Dead" in the top search bar and hit the "Search" button next to it, the search engine looks in the main namespace for the query "Dead", not the category namespace. However, if I do the same thing but use the bottom bar instead, I successfully find "Category:Dead people" among the results.
There is no more two entry bar on the search page. So that solve the bug in 1.5 and HEAD :)
There are indeed still two text entry areas and two search buttons in the default theme on the English Wikipedia, which is running 1.6alpha, according to Special:Version, and this is still a problem.
Got it. Looks like a bug with the Lucene search page so :)
The upper search-button uses your personell settings and the other what you have selected.
Ah. It definitely still makes more sense for your preferences to be the default, and for the text entry areas and buttons to be unified.
At the very least the first button needs to be labeled "search the namespaces defined in your preferences" and the second one "search the namespeces selected on this page". But really I don't see a need for more than one. If someone wants to reset the search to their preferences then they can reload the page. Or a button "reset to preferences" could be added.
Fixed for core UI in r32302.
Confirmed to be fixed in the live UI; now there is only one list of checkboxes.
