Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Archive/Integrated "incategory" functionality

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Integrated "incategory" functionality

N Because functionality already exists

Problem: The "incategory" search filter gives results for pages that are included in that category. This feature is very useful but little known. I think that it should be integrated to the graphic interface of the search page, to make it easier to find and use.

Proposed solution: The search page should have a "Category filters" box below the namespaces box, with options to add and remove categories to the filter.

Also, each category in the filter list should have an option "include subcategories".

For example, this search:

Canadian men's basketball players (don't include subcategories)
1980s births (include subcategories)

would return a list of Canadian men's basketball players born in the 1980s (who are in the included subcategories of "1980s births"), but not wheelchair basketball players (who are in an excluded subcategory of "Canadian men's basketball players").

More comments:

Phabricator tickets: T143310

Proposer: NaBUru38 (talk) 15:39, 30 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Advanced Search beta showing Category search feature.

Discussion

I like the idea greatly and I would like it to also allow to sort by the date the article was added to the category. Gryllida 23:00, 30 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This is already supported by mw:Extension:AdvancedSearch which is currently available as a beta feature - anything else remains to be done here? MaxSem (WMF) (talk) 00:22, 31 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- MaxSem (WMF) is right; the Advanced Search beta already has a Category search feature (it's a little bit hidden, under "Advanced parameters"). I believe this beta is deployed on all wikis. See the screenshot at right; NaBUru38 does that meet your needs? Do you want to refine this request or can we retire it?

Example search query making use of the deepcat search option. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 04:38, 31 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That's great! So when will this AdvancedSearch extension graduate from beta? --NaBUru38 (talk) 18:58, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@NaBUru38: According to phab:T207640, it's about to become default on the first wikis in november/december. The rest will slowly follow. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 08:44, 7 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I've been testing the "deepcat" functionality on Wikimedia Commons, and it often fails (see 1, 2, 3). This feature needs improvement. --NaBUru38 (talk) 19:04, 7 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for this proposal NaBUru38. Since it looks like your wish has been granted already by the Advanced Search tool (now in Beta), I'm withdrawing this proposal. —JMatazzoni (WMF) (talk) 18:41, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]