Wikibooks:Reading room/Proposals/2015/July

Redirecting recipes
Would it be possible to redirect Spanish Omelet and other recipes to the corresponding Cookbook:Spanish Omelet and such?--85.52.83.65 (discuss) 23:56, 11 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Personally, I'm not too fond of this idea because we could have an entire textbook called Spanish Omelet about the history, etc. of Spanish omelets. I think an alternative method would be for the Special:Search to list Cookbook (and Wikijunior) pages by default in the search results. (As it currently stands, only the mainspace, Wikibooks: and Subject: are included). An admin should be able to change that setting. Kayau (talk · contribs) 09:36, 12 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Like you, I thought default search included mainspace, project space, and subject space. By empirical testing, though, it seems that under some circumstances it's only mainspace.


 * I don't know of a hook for admins to chance this; afaik it's part of our project configuration. So we'd need to get a community consensus and file a request at phabricator (we did this within the past year or so at en.wn, and it went fairly smoothly except that even the most experienced of us had trouble figuring out phabricator).  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 10:23, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
 * This? mw:Manual:$wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault I don't know enough about the MW software to know if this can be set by admins though. Is Phabricator the new Bugzilla? Kayau (talk · contribs) 14:54, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that's the variable. It's in php, beyond the reach of admins.  Phabricator is now used for what previously used bugzilla.  The "ph" somehow reminds me of the word "phony".  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 16:12, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Maybe because of the word 'fabricate' (as in 'fabricate truths'). :P Kayau (talk · contribs) 05:41, 15 July 2015 (UTC)


 * I agree with the original poster that typing "Spanish Omelet" in the search bar at the top should either include Cookbook:Spanish Omelet in the list of results, or go directly to that page. I agree with Kayau that adding "Cookbook" to the list of default search namespaces is a better way of accomplishing that goal than setting up a bunch of redirects.
 * What's the next step towards adding "Cookbook" to the list of default search namespaces? --DavidCary (discuss • contribs) 14:03, 17 July 2015 (UTC)


 * I think we are all in agreement. In fact after adding the extra namespaces to the default search function it would be great to permit to toggle in and out the appearance of redirect pages from the search results, this would solve issues with having people create them in the first place (even working as a patch if the first is not possible). --Panic (discuss • contribs) 03:48, 18 July 2015 (UTC)