Hello mailing list!
This is my first time posting to the mediawiki list so bear with me if I
break any protocols and please correct me as needed.
I came into maintaining an internal wiki that has logs set up for every day
of the week that are filled out every day. There are over 200 of these
logs as of today. This idea works well until someone goes to search and
they come across hundreds of useless log entries in their search that clog
up results. To add insult to injury, these results conveniently begin with
a NUMBER so they are always the first hits and users have to wade past them
to see their search results.
We still want to be able to search these logs, so putting them into one
page and referencing the view history is not an option. My idea to clean
this up was to put these existing logs into their own namespace, and I'm
trying to test out this idea in a development wiki server. I'm able to do
the mysql query listed the namespace manual, and when I use the
{{NAMESPACE}} magic word the pages show up in the new namespace, but they
are not separated from searching main, and when I click on the new
namespace in the advanced search and search, they don't show up.
Really scratching my head with this one. I would be grateful for any
suggestions or alternate solutions.
Many thanks,
Devin