User blog comment:Daniel Baran/Search Developments: Big Picture/@comment-160529-20120511212128/@comment-188432-20120511215905

I do. On my wiki there are a lot of similarly named categories. Searching for category:time' or category:human at w:c:tardis, and getting a list of categories that have the word time in them is very  helpful to the process of discovery for newbies! I actively welcome this "discovery" method of searching, because I'm hoping it will mean greater exploration, which can only result in greater accuracy in the use of categories.

And templates are frequently similarly-named. I mean, go to wikipedia and look at the number of templates that begin with the letters. There's  and on and on. People might well remember the base name of a template (like template:archive) but not remember the particular variant they want.

The only namespace that I really think should directly take me anywhere, without question, is MediaWiki. That is a place that is so obviously for wiki maintenance that by default new users can't edit it. The whole namespace is locked. So Wikia should, by default, allow for "go" in that namesapce, whether or not you've tickd the box in Special:Preference.

There's certainly an argument that Special: should also be "go only", but then there's a philosophical question as to whether it actually is a true namespace, since it doesn't behave as one in a lot of respects.