Forum:Yet another question: Why does Oasis hold on to deleted or surpressed redirected data?

There are pages and images that I deleted and redirected months ago, yet Oasis will have these appear when typing in the Search bar or searching in general. It will lead you to pages that are no longer needed. Is there something I need to do to the wiki overall to get it to stop doing this? -- Bunai82 (talk) 17:59, February 10, 2011 (UTC)


 * That's a caching thing. I don't think there's anything you can do to stop it on your end, I think it's a Wikia-side bug. If you use Special:Contact, staff might be able to clear some of those out in the short term, but you'd likely have to specify specific page titles.


 * [Tagging oasis as defective by design] --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 19:13, February 10, 2011 (UTC)
 * Moncho is right, this is generally a caching issue. Can you send a message to Special:Contact from that wiki? We'll see if we can do something about that. Thanks. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 19:29, February 10, 2011 (UTC)
 * It happens with my wiki too, as well. nightfern ♥Love is in the air♥ 19:32, February 10, 2011 (UTC)
 * Please send that in too. If it's occurring on a lot of wikis I'll file a bug report. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 19:35, February 10, 2011 (UTC)
 * Just to clarify. Does this mean that bugs that doesn't happen on a lot of wikis are just ignored? How many wikis are a lot? --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 20:38, February 10, 2011 (UTC)
 * That's not what I said, Ciencia. If this is happening on a lot of wikis, it's very likely a bug. If it's happening on 2, it's very likely a caching issue that doesn't need to be reported to the tech team but rather can be cleared up through purging the page. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 22:06, February 10, 2011 (UTC)

(unindent) I wouldn't be surprised. There are 73 staff members and 35 helpers, making up a total of 108 people that Wikia employs (with accounts). In the MediaWiki 1.16 update, a staff member mentioned that there were 190,000 wikis on Wikia. So when you do the math, Wikia doesn't really have time for a bug that's only happening on one wiki.


 * Thanks for the replies, I hope something can be done as it makes searching for things rather messy, such things also attract spammers or new users who will recreate the page, it basically cycles. -- Bunai82 (talk) 21:54, February 10, 2011 (UTC)


 * Happens on w:c:fallout as well; reported via Special:Contact. -- Porter21 (talk) 12:31, February 11, 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reports guys. I've filed a bug report. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 17:42, February 13, 2011 (UTC)

This has been a problem for Monster Hunter Wiki as well. I have deleted information that is unnecessary, yet it still exists in the searchbar. Going to report this problem as well. Mckrongs 10:29, February 15, 2011 (UTC)


 * Halo Wiki is experiencing similar issues with its Workmark. Purging doesn't work.— subtank  ( 7alk ) 02:21, February 16, 2011 (UTC)

Okay. I'm to be impatient here, but two months is long enough to wait for action. We demand for some of the technical issues to be fixed. I really hope this won't take a year to fix too. :/ Mckrongs 13:53, March 2, 2011 (UTC)


 * You're assuming that Wikia actually fixes all the problems they know about. You've assumed wrong.


 * lol still waiting to see what happens also, I wonder why we are not given the tools to fix this ourselves. -- Bunai82 (talk) 22:10, March 3, 2011 (UTC)


 * This involves the actual PHP MediaWiki software, as opposed to just a JS error.


 * Ah thank you. -- Bunai82 (talk) 22:47, March 4, 2011 (UTC)


 * Tagging Staff needed. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 7 Mar 2011 7:28 AM Pacific

Untag. This is/was a known problem in our search system, and existed before Oasis. It has nothing to do with CSS/JS or anything else that high level. This is a very very deep level problem that is being handled by Ops. Much has changed in that area in the last 6 months, and will continue to change. If you are still having an issue with this, please "Contact Wikia" us from your wiki, and we may be able to have your wiki's info purged and rebuilt. --Uberfuzzy 08:27, June 15, 2011 (UTC)