Rebuilding the indexes might do it, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Rebuildall.php for more info. --Daniel (User:AlephNull)
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of John Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 3:02 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] (no subject) Make sure you rebuild the search indexes after the namespace move On Thursday, October 17, 2013, Devin Roark wrote: > Hello mailing list! > > This is my first time posting to the mediawiki list so bear with me if > I break any protocols and please correct me as needed. > > I came into maintaining an internal wiki that has logs set up for > every day of the week that are filled out every day. There are over > 200 of these logs as of today. This idea works well until someone > goes to search and they come across hundreds of useless log entries in > their search that clog up results. To add insult to injury, these > results conveniently begin with a NUMBER so they are always the first > hits and users have to wade past them to see their search results. > > We still want to be able to search these logs, so putting them into > one page and referencing the view history is not an option. My idea > to clean this up was to put these existing logs into their own > namespace, and I'm trying to test out this idea in a development wiki > server. I'm able to do the mysql query listed the namespace manual, > and when I use the {{NAMESPACE}} magic word the pages show up in the > new namespace, but they are not separated from searching main, and > when I click on the new namespace in the advanced search and search, they > don't show up. > > Really scratching my head with this one. I would be grateful for any > suggestions or alternate solutions. > > Many thanks, > Devin > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
