"Looking for Special:Search?" link on Commons should be pre-populated
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	Jul 3 2021, 4:17 PM

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When using the new Commons search, the results are prefixed with "Looking for Special:Search?"

The link behind that text is to: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search

The link should instead be pre-populated with the search string (for example, "foo") for the search that the user has just performed, thus:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=foo

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Pigsonthewing created this task.Jul 3 2021, 4:17 PM

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Pigsonthewing renamed this task from "Looking for Special:Search?" link on Cmmons should be pre-populated to "Looking for Special:Search?" link on Commons should be pre-populated.Jul 3 2021, 4:17 PM

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AntiCompositeNumber edited projects, added SDAW-MediaSearch, Structured-Data-Backlog; removed Discovery-Search (Current work).Jul 3 2021, 7:22 PM

CBogen closed this task as a duplicate of T285169: Changing search term while on MediaSearch doesn't update "Switch to Special:Search" link _target.Jul 12 2021, 4:46 PM

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