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"new user-facing features, like the ability to search within a category, are planned"

Great news! :) Now it would be cool to make it even easier to search by crossing many categories, and allowing searching subcategories as well. --NaBUru38 (talk) 18:54, 31 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

From conversations, it sounds like those are planned, but realise this is very early stages: The old search was a mess, so it had to be rewritten into a stable version before any other improvements could be done. We're going to get new search features, but I don't think anyone can promise anything until coding's a lot further on. =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 19:24, 31 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
@Adam Cuerden: How is this any different from incategory:? πr2 (tc) 20:28, 2 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
That you'd need to ask the developers about. I would presume it would include subcategories, perhaps? Adam Cuerden (talk) 20:04, 4 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
What we are talking about is incategory:, yes. The major difference we've accomplished here (which I think was lost in the blurb) is that we've made it possible to have multiple incategory: terms in a single search, opening the door for category intersections. ^demon[omg plz] 02:17, 5 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]