When I run a search, it comes up with content, just not codex-specific content. 
Takes a minute, since the Google search is worse than the old Yahoo one.

And THAT bakes my brain a little. o.O

On 28 Mar 2012, at 2:39:45PM, Lorelle on WordPress wrote:

> When the user was in the Codex, the search was limited to the Codex. It used 
> to say "search Codex" in the search field. We set it up that way ages ago. 
> Either way, it stopped working a while ago. I get nothing when I use the 
> search box at the top. 
> 
> Is anyone else getting nothing in the searches? 
> 
> Lorelle
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Otto <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
> <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>
> > 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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