On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 04:16:59AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi
I know a page related to removing Fedora has just been created but a search doesn't seem to list it at all
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=remove+fedora&go=Go
That's a little aggravating, since I did create the following page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_Fedora
which redirects to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_uninstall_Fedora
Are redirect pages not indexed?
BTW, I'm redirecting replies to the wiki list, which is probably where this kind of inquiry should go.
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 07:26:32PM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 04:16:59AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi
I know a page related to removing Fedora has just been created but a search doesn't seem to list it at all
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=remove+fedora&go=Go
That's a little aggravating, since I did create the following page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_Fedora
which redirects to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_uninstall_Fedora
Are redirect pages not indexed?
Weird -- and I even added <!-- remove --> in a comment on that page and it didn't help.
[1]: https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=How_to_uninstall_Fedora&diff...
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Ian Weller ianweller@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 07:26:32PM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 04:16:59AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi
I know a page related to removing Fedora has just been created but a search doesn't seem to list it at all
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=remove+fedora&go=Go
That's a little aggravating, since I did create the following page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_Fedora
which redirects to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_uninstall_Fedora
Are redirect pages not indexed?
Weird -- and I even added <!-- remove --> in a comment on that page and it didn't help.
--
When I add the "List Redirects" option in advanced search I do find the referring page but that doesn't help the real issue. And MediaWiki help says [2] "Even if you enclose a phrase in quotes, the search looks for each word individually. e.g., if you enter "world war 2" it will return pages that contain "world" and "war" and "2".
But that implies that remove+fedora should list pages with BOTH before pages with one or the other. Maybe it is. There are over 500 hits and the [How to uninstall Fedora] page is the last one listed. (show 500 then next 500 and scroll to the bottom).
1. What is the display order of pages found and can we control it? I don't really see a pattern to the date listed - which looks like last modified. Maybe it is sorting by creation date? I only looked at a couple of samples. 2. A lot of those 500-1000 pages are meeting and EOL pages that can be moved out of the main namespace - so we are back to more cleanup needs.
-Susan
[2]http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Searching
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 09:25:29PM -0400, Susan Lauber wrote:
- What is the display order of pages found and can we control it? I
don't really see a pattern to the date listed - which looks like last modified. Maybe it is sorting by creation date? I only looked at a couple of samples.
I was vaguely certain that it was searching by what it calls "relevancy".
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Paul W. Frields -
Susan Lauber