On Monday, October 19, 2015, Legoktm legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
On 10/15/2015 10:06 AM, Dan Andreescu wrote:
Please don't delete old content, mark it as {{historical}} or {{outdated}} and archive it instead.I'm all for following the norm here, but wouldn't that mean it still shows up in searches? That's what I'm trying to avoid, minimizing the confusion.
Yes, but that's fixable with stuff like [1] if it actually becomes a problem.
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Cirrussearch-boost-templates
This has been a problem for a few years now, I wish I knew about these templates, that seems like a great fix. One thing - does this also exclude the pages from the auto-complete searches? Or just the full cirrus searches?