Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment--20140604160246/@comment-122657-20140610224016

Darkseid01 wrote: Hi tech people. This isn't a Lua question, but you all seem to be familiar with under the hood details so I thought I'd ask my question here as I may get a useful answer. Is it possible to set up the search box at the top of all wikis to check the 'Description' field of image files uploaded to the wiki for keywords? For example, if I put a character name in the image's 'Description' field I would like to be able to type that character name in the search box and have it pull up all the images with that character name on the wiki.

This question doesn't really belong here, (as this is about the Lua change-over), but I can provide two answers.

First, you can use the Photos and Videos search feature. You enter the word or words you're searching for in the search bar, click the magnifying glass, and then click the "Photos and Videos" link on the left side. That will ensure that only photos, videos, or both will be in your search results. Then you have to scroll through all of the media with your search phrase in the title. Here I did a search for John, and found several images with 'John' in the page description itself.

The other option is to use the /Images categories (since that's what they're there for). We put the Subject fields into the image pages so that we could create repositories (categories) of all the images of a character. All the images of Peter Parker of Earth-616, for example.