[WikiEN-l] Re: Three levels

[ABCD]

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

ABCD