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Hello,

I wanted to ask you if this community would be interested in helping us improve search suggestions by participating in a little experiment? As part of our constant effort to improve this facet of our search functionality, we want to try out some alternate methods. If you agree, we will try out these changes here and measure the results.

The testing period will last between two to four weeks.

During that period you will see the following improvements: much faster search suggestions and a different look for the way they appear.

The possible drawbacks are: search suggest will only provide namespace suggestions (no images or categories), and any new articles created during the test will not automatically appear in search suggest (although we can manually add them if that will help). --semanticdrifter (help forum | blog) 14:56, October 2, 2013 (UTC)

I'm ok with it, it can use a bit of an overhaul. I'm unhappy with the current search box as it is with redirects as search results and the drawbacks acceptable to me. Jspoel Speech Jspoel 16:28, October 2, 2013 (UTC)
I'm on board too. Let us know when it's up and I'll take it for a spin. The Gunny  380px-USMC-E7 svg 19:21, October 2, 2013 (UTC)

I'm happy with this, do you have a paragraph or so I can include in our news? Danke. Agent c (talk) 19:43, October 2, 2013 (UTC)

This should be good. At the moment there aren't exactly pages being created left and right, so that shouldn't be a problem. I'm on board! --TwoBearsHigh-Fiving Intercom01 19:50, October 2, 2013 (UTC)

Just a heads up that this experiment will be going live this week and is scheduled to run through the end of the year. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. --semanticdrifter (help forum | blog) 16:22, November 22, 2013 (UTC)

Review[]

As some of you may be aware, the testing period for this feature is now over. I thought I would revive this forum as a review so users can report their experiences with the feature as well as any problems they may have encountered so that wikia can see it. FollowersApocalypseLogo A Follower  Talk  16:29, January 13, 2014 (UTC)

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