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
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