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
Make sure you rebuild the search indexes after the namespace move
On Thursday, October 17, 2013, Devin Roark wrote:
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 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Rebuilding the indexes might do it, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Rebuildall.php for more info. --Daniel (User:AlephNull)
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Make sure you rebuild the search indexes after the namespace move
On Thursday, October 17, 2013, Devin Roark wrote:
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 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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