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⚓ T117036 Media search results not in order

  • ️Thu Oct 29 2015

I recently helped new editors learn how to use VisualEditor at an in-person workshop (funded by an Inspire grant, yay!), and while teaching them how to upload media to Commons and insert it into articles, I needed to explain to them to try looking at the last row of VisualEditor media search results to find their file, which was...sort of confusing.

I believe these VisualEditor media search results are often unfortunately backwards, and I'm just noting that I'm still hoping for this to get fixed - I find that new editors are often excited about adding relevant photos from Commons to articles, since it's fun and immediately rewarding, and I would love for them to have a smoother experience. Thanks!

Here's another example, the first results when searching for "Dahlia Motors":

Screen Shot 2015-10-20 at 10.50.18 PM.png (607×969 px, 524 KB)

And the last results from that search:

Screen Shot 2015-10-20 at 10.51.07 PM.png (597×977 px, 390 KB)