On 10/3/05, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Anthony DiPierro wrote:
- Actually, I just checked, and even deleted articles are already included
in search.
This is a bigger problem that has effects on more than just the deletion process. It only adds to the need for a more sophisticated search process, a request that our developpers are certainly aware of.
I often search single words in Wiktionary, but the problem could be bigger in a much larger project such as en:Wikipedia. The results give me not only deleted articles but deleted versions of articles that still exist. I can't imagine that coming up with all this makes life any easier on the servers. For single word searches I can have 500 hits when in reality only 50 of them still contain the word. Those 50 are scattered throughout the entire list rather than featured at the top of the list. Such an exaggerated historical search may be useful for some people but they should need to check a box before they get it.
What's happening is that an old index is being searched, not the current article content (which would take longer/bring down the servers more often). Therefore, if an article is still in that index, then it would be found by a search, even if it has already been deleted
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