Hi Deryck,

It might help if you provide us with any of the other known aspects, e.g.
topic-area, last known time of existence, etc.

If I was looking, my first step with just the current info, would probably
be to open the Special:Log/delete at the relevant wiki, expand it to 500
entries, and try a few ctrl-F searches to narrow down the time-frame. E.g.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&offset=&limit=500&type=delete&user=&page=&wpdate=&tagfilter=&subtype=delete

Separately, there might also be clues in the description of
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109561 (for using Special:Undelete to
searching deleted page titles, with some fuzzy-matching now available)

HTH,
Quiddity

On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 10:16 AM Vi to <[email protected]> wrote:

> AFAIK nope, you can just search for title prefixes.
>
> Vito
>
> Il giorno gio 18 apr 2019 alle ore 16:23 Deryck Chan <[email protected]>
> ha scritto:
>
>> Hello ambassadors.
>>
>> I can't find relevant info in the documentation so I've come to ask here
>> - Is it possible to run a keyword search in deleted page content?
>>
>> I've got this situation where a few pages were deleted by mistake, and
>> redirects to those pages were speedily deleted by other admins. Now there
>> are no searchable traces of what redirects we should restore, and admins
>> don't know where in the deletion log to look. Any advice?
>>
>> Deryck
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