Wikipedia talk:Go button

Type in great wall of china and click GO and you are taken to Talk:Great Wall of China. Type in baseball hall of fame and click GO and you are taken to Talk:Baseball Hall of Fame. This is bad. Obviously, users should be taken to Great Wall of China and Baseball Hall of Fame respectively. How can this be fixed? Kingturtle 23:21 12 Jun 2003 (UTC)


 * Curiously, if you type in "Great Wall of China" or "Baseball Hall of Fame", with all the capital letters, you get to the article. It just amused me, thought I'd mention it, don't mind me. --Camembert


 * Don't worry. I won't.
 * *joking* --Menchi 23:29 12 Jun 2003 (UTC)


 * I've installed Erik's fix for this; it now takes article pages at a higher priority than talk pages. --Brion 04:59 13 Jun 2003 (UTC)

GO nato and you get NATO.0&plus;55&plus;3d, not NATO. Kingturtle 06:04 15 Jun 2003 (UTC)


 * Ugh. I thought I had written the "try all upper case" code, but I never actually did -- it just worked before because the "try near match" code found the upper case variants, too. It now no longer does because it doesn't sort by result confidence but by namespace in order to fix the "great wall" type problem mentioned above. Well, I've fixed it, but it needs to be installed, which only Brion can do. --Eloquence 08:21 15 Jun 2003 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the time and the effort. it is truly appreciated. Kingturtle 18:37 15 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Plan to move this page to meta soon
We need one place to develop MediaWiki documentation so I'm starting a project-neutral MediaWiki User's Guide in meta and think it would be a good idea to cross wiki redirect this page to meta:MediaWiki User's Guide: The Go button as soon as I'm done with the conversion (before that I will change each link to this page to a direct one to meta so that it appears correctly as an external link). --mav 02:02, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Standard skin
Why is the Go button only on the Standard skin? Wouldn't it make sense to have both Go and Search on all skins. (On some skins the Search button is labelled OK.) Nanobug 17:30, 19 Sep 2003 (UTC)

You vs the user
Kingturtle recently changed all occurrences of you and your in the article to the user and his/her. Does anyone else think this makes the text read less clearly? Aren't we talking to "the user"? If so, why can't we say "you"? Nanobug 01:36, 3 Oct 2003 (UTC)

You is far preferable. There's one phrase in there that goes something like "... if the user [does this or that] the user is taken to ..." Ugh! This the user lark is totally anal and sounds pompous to the twenty-first-century ear, like something from a 1950s primary-school textbook. It's different in articles within the encyclopedia proper, but in help files? The other thing about you is that it's non-gender-specific, and you don't have to keep typing his or her or him/her or be tempted to use their when you know you'd rather do the grammatical (but clumsy) thing and typle his or her or just the sexist his. Ajarmitage 08:52, 6 April 2007 (UTC)