[Mediawiki-api] Search query returns missing pages

[Ran Ari-Gur]

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 at 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=Does
> %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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