[wp-docs] Codex Fixes Please

[Lorelle on WordPress]

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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