[wp-docs] Codex Fixes Please

[Otto]

It's not broken, it's just labeled wrong.

The header search box searches all of WordPress.org. This is
site-wide, and intentional.

The incorrect label will eventually be fixed.

-Otto




On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Lorelle on WordPress
<lorelleonwordpress at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks. I mean the search at the top of the page. That's broken. It's the
> one that EVERYONE uses, not just those who know a few tricks. :D It works on
> the rest of the site but not when "in" the Codex.
>
> There are ways to prevent indexing the User pages through robots.txt, etc.,
> too, the easy way out.
>
> As for those with the capacity to run scripts in the maintenance folder...I
> have no clue who that would be any more.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Lorelle
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Mika A Epstein <ipstenu at ipstenu.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Is the CODEX search broken -- http://codex.wordpress.org/Special:Search
>>
>> Or do you mean the search at the top of the pages that goes
>> to http://wordpress.org/search/ ? Those are different things.
>>
>> As for deleted pages... Welcome to a Mediawiki flaw. It's moronic but the
>> way Google and MediaWiki talk, this is what they WANT to happen. :/ It's
>> useful to non-Admins when someone nukes a page, but the rest of the time I
>> sit and wonder what they were smoking.
>>
>> Someone with ssh access would have to run the following scripts:
>>
>> Go to the maintenance folder and run
>>
>> $ php purgeoldtext.php
>>
>> (see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:PurgeOldText.php That will
>> delete all revisions for all deleted pages.)
>>
>> Then you'd probably want to run either rebuildall.php or
>> rebuildrecentchanges.php. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Rebuildall.php is
>> documented but the other's pretty obvious.
>>
>> ---
>> Mika A Epstein (Ipstenu)
>> Half-Elf Support Rogue and Volunteer WordPress Forum Moderator
>>
>> On 27 Mar 2012, at 7:42:55PM, Lorelle on WordPress wrote:
>>
>> The search on the Codex has been broken for a while. Any chance of fixing
>> that soon?
>>
>> I'm now using Google's site search and looking up video embeds I found:
>>
>> http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Viva_viagra_video_commercial
>>
>> http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Levitra_funny_video
>>
>> These are spams that were deleted but they show up in Google search
>> results as a deleted page (WTF?), which is as good as them being left there
>> to be found. The key issue is that we've asked since the beginning to have
>> User pages blocked from search results and search engines. Any chance of
>> that happening since another search I did on viagra, sex, porn, and our
>> other favorite words on the Codex turned up more deleted page results with
>> the deleted content accessible in the page's content?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Lorelle
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