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 {{outdated}} and archive it instead.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?