Last modified: 2012-04-16 09:16:14 UTC
When viewing a non-existent article, it would be very useful if clicking the search button searched for the title of that article rather than presenting a blank search. By way of example clicking the search button on (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sp%C3%A9cial_police&action=edit&redlink=1) gives a blank search page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search) rather than one pre-propulated with the missing title (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&redirs=0&search=Sp%C3%A9cial+police&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&ns1=1&ns2=1&ns3=1&ns4=1&ns5=1&ns6=1&ns7=1&ns8=1&ns9=1&ns10=1&ns11=1&ns12=1&ns13=1&ns14=1&ns15=1&ns100=1&ns101=1&ns108=1&ns109=1)
So when you are on a non-existing page, you want the search button to automatically search for the title of the non-existing page, in the wiki contents ?
Yup - that's it.
Umm, when i click on the search button, it goes to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/Sp%C3%A9cial_police like you'd want it to.
There is the header that says: > Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for > Spécial police in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings. or in the default install: > You can search for this page title in other pages And both of these pages link to the desired search. But the search button doesn't doesn't automatically search for the missing name. Still, the functionality is staring you in the face, I don't see a reason to have the search use the referring page by default.
