Those are all pages that have been deleted. Deleted pages remain in the database so they can be undeleted. (I'm not sure if they get purged eventually or not.)
Your examples are, in fact, all in the main namespace, since the namespaces Http: and User taIk: (note: that's a capital "i", not a lowercase "L") do not currently exist.
I don't think the search should be returning deleted pages.
-Ran (User:Ruakh)
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Simon Lehmann simon.lehmann@gmx.de wrote:
Hello list,
I am wondering if the search module should return pages that don't exist. If I am searching for something, I probably want to find something that already exists, especially if I use srwhat=text. I don't even know where the API gets the text to search in, for a page that doesn't even exist.
Just look at the example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&gsrsearch=... %20not%20exist&generator=search&gsrnamespace=0
Besides that, it also seems to find stuff that doesn't even belong into the main namespace, even if it existed, like:
- Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:State-sponsored terrorism by the
United States/Archive 9 (This isn't even a valid title)
- User tаIk:Jj137/Archivе 5
Is this desired behaviour or is it a bug?
Simon Lehmann
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