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.

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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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