Last modified: 2014-02-24 14:56:32 UTC
Ticking in Search in all namespaces should select all the namespaces. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-searchoptions
Change 110610 had a related patch set uploaded by 01tonythomas: Ticking search in all namespaces should tick all the remaining checkboxes. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/110610
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-searchoptions is... bad. The real answer here is to fix the overall design problem. But for now, Gerrit change #110610 may be a small step forward. I'm still trying to imagine what my reaction would be to the proposed behavior. Perhaps we should do better to mimic [[mw:Special:Search]]? I don't know.
Change 110610 merged by jenkins-bot: Ticking 'Search in all namespaces' in prefs should disable other checkboxes https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/110610