Last modified: 2013-09-20 15:26:27 UTC
This is proposed and justified at [[Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#RFC:_Proposal_that_basic_search_should_include_category_search]]. In brief: Including category search in basic search (by default) would help reduce the number of near-duplicate articles with different names. Few people seem to know how to do an advanced search that includes category names. Related suggestion: When an editor adds a link to "ABC" then at present Wikipedia tells the editor, "There isn't an article called "ABC", do you want to create one (if such an article doesn't exist). Surely it would be better if the message were, "There isn't an article called "ABC", but there is a category "ABC". Do you want to **view the category "ABC"** (this would link to the category search results page) or create a new article "ABC"?
*** Bug 31027 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Proposal now [[Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_77#RFC:_Proposal_that_basic_search_should_include_category_search|archived here]].
[Merging "MediaWiki extensions/Lucene Search" into "Wikimedia/lucene-search2", see bug 46542. You can filter bugmail for: search-component-merge-20130326 ]
How exactly is this different from bug 2285?
Ben: How exactly is this different from bug 2285?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2285 ***