Suddenly am finding it kind of tough to find talk content. There must be at least one mirror with indexed talk?
Of course now the internal searches are much better. As a test of how good the internal searches are, try using them to find the discussion about de-indexing the talk pages.
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Andrew Cates Andrew@soschildren.org wrote:
Suddenly am finding it kind of tough to find talk content. There must be at least one mirror with indexed talk?
Of course now the internal searches are much better. As a test of how good the internal searches are, try using them to find the discussion about de-indexing the talk pages.
I would use "prefix:wikipedia:" (the trailing colon seems to be needed) to find discussion in the "wikipedia" namespace. From memory, it was on the village pump and other pages like that, not in the "Wikipedia talk" namespace. That does raise a relevant point though - it would be good to be able to search a namespace plus the corresponding talk namespace, and not just one or the other.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&ns0=1&ns9...
That is one search. I did another and found this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)/Archive_59#NOIN...
Was that the discussion you were thinking of?
This page might help as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Search_engine_indexing
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