MediaWiki talk:Cirrussearch-articletopic-invalid-topic

Protected edit request on 19 August 2020
Please create this page with content: Unrecognized topic NaN namess for the articletopic: keyword: $1. Please choose one of the valid keywords.

Its very frustrating to be told that the keyword is invalid without any indication of what keywords are valid. This edit rectifies that by linking to mw:Help:CirrusSearch/articletopic which has the list of valid keywords. Tested on testwiki. See this search. The content of testwiki:MediaWiki:Cirrussearch-articletopic-invalid-topic is same as what's written above. SD0001 (talk) 16:02, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure I'd like to send someone who lands on this off project to mediawiki.org - since once they get there they may not find their way back to the English Wikipedia - keeping in mind this can be hit on by basic readers - perhaps a local help for this? — xaosflux  Talk 16:45, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, articletopic is a fairly uncommon search keyword, that I wouldn't expect anyone who's using it to not know how to use the back button of the browser. We could add a section to Help:Searching about articletopic - but I suspect putting the whole list of valid keywords might be too spcae-consuming there. SD0001 (talk) 02:41, 20 August 2020 (UTC)


 * how about just making it clear they are leaving with something like this:

Unrecognized topic NaN namess for the articletopic: keyword: $1. For a list of valid keywords please see mw:Help:CirrusSearch/articletopic.
 * ? — xaosflux  Talk 11:08, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
 * that sounds fine as well. SD0001 (talk) 14:21, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ updated, let me know if I missed anything, also noted that this should be dynamic somehow in T245905 and subscribed you there. —  xaosflux  Talk 15:59, 20 August 2020 (UTC)