Why does the wiki search facility not work properly?
Hi, There is a page on the Haskell Wiki titled "Talk:SantaClausProblem" subtitled "Beautiful concurrency". However typing any of the following into the search box *doesn't* lead to the page: Santa talk:santaclausproblem beautiful beautiful concurrency Talk:Santa In fact to get the page you have to type the *exact* full title in the *exact* case. Luckily I could always refer back to SimonPJ's post to the Haskell mailing list to find the link to the page, but I think this situation is really bad because it means that things on the wiki are more or less just being thrown down a gaping void never to be seen again unless you know which catagories to look in from the main page. Another point is that the word "beautiful" does occur on the page but the page is not included in the list of page text matches. Perhaps the site is not being automatically re-indexed frequently enough? There is also a bunch of check boxes at the bottom of the search results page that doesn't seem to do anything either except cause nothing at all to happen when you click search unless the (Main) box is the only box ticked. Anyway I thought I'd just point this out in case anyone knows how to fix it. Thanks, Brian. -- http://www.metamilk.com
I don't know, but I would suspect that the page isn't linked from anywhere, and that's why it's not showing up in the search results. Cheers, Kirsten -- Kirsten Chevalier* chevalier@alum.wellesley.edu *Often in error, never in doubt "What is research but a blind date with knowledge?" -- Will Henry
On 07/01/07, Kirsten Chevalier <catamorphism@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't know, but I would suspect that the page isn't linked from anywhere, and that's why it's not showing up in the search results.
MediaWiki has a concept of namespaces - Talk:SantaClausProblem is in the "Talk" namespace - maybe that namespace isn't searched by default? Paul.
On 1/7/07, Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
On 07/01/07, Kirsten Chevalier <catamorphism@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't know, but I would suspect that the page isn't linked from anywhere, and that's why it's not showing up in the search results.
MediaWiki has a concept of namespaces - Talk:SantaClausProblem is in the "Talk" namespace - maybe that namespace isn't searched by default?
The Haskell wiki doesn't run on MediaWiki, though, does it? In any case, if there *is* a checkbox for searching the Talk namespace (and I forget whether there is), then yes, be sure you have it checked. Cheers, Kirsten -- Kirsten Chevalier* chevalier@alum.wellesley.edu *Often in error, never in doubt "What is research but a blind date with knowledge?" -- Will Henry
On Jan 7, 2007, at 12:57 , Kirsten Chevalier wrote:
On 1/7/07, Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
On 07/01/07, Kirsten Chevalier <catamorphism@gmail.com> wrote: MediaWiki has a concept of namespaces - Talk:SantaClausProblem is in the "Talk" namespace - maybe that namespace isn't searched by default?
The Haskell wiki doesn't run on MediaWiki, though, does it? In any case, if there *is* a checkbox for searching the Talk namespace (and I forget whether there is), then yes, be sure you have it checked.
Looks like it to me... and the bottom of the search results page would seem to confirm it (having both "MediaWiki" and "MediaWiki talk" categories). (That's also where the checkboxes for various other talk namespaces live.) -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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