Forum:Search index refresh rate (after a page is deleted)

Hello all,

We've been transforming the structure of a part of the wiki at rappelz.wikia.com. Doing so, we've removed a lot of templates and category.

However, searching the site for stuff that was delete is still possible, but lead to a deleted page: going to the search page and searching for template misc or category location will give a bunch of results, and a lot of them lead to a deleted page.

What I am wondering is: when will those pages be removed from the search index, so that they can't come up when doing a research on the wiki?

Thanks! Hunter789 15:33, July 8, 2011 (UTC)


 * The server has to cache that the pages are missing. It's been known to not cache in a timely manner, if at all.


 * I know the server walks through all the pages to update special pages (the content on these pages is up to date with the updated time found at the top of each special page), but yeah, probably the search index is not updated. I'll see if wikia staff could refresh it manually or something. Hunter789 15:55, July 8, 2011 (UTC)


 * Search indexes are hard to do and there's not really a good way for Wikia Staff to do re-indexes. It has to be done by a specialized prompt. When you're done reorganizing Hunter, get in contact with me on my talk page or back again on Special:Contact and I'll see if I can ask a tech to run a quick script for you. --daNASCAT http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb32675/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (help forum | blog) 14:39, July 9, 2011 (UTC)


 * Special:Contact seems like an awkward way to request a re-index. Maybe Wikia should create a new special page that just sends a request to re-index and puts it in a queue somewhere. Then it can be all automated. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 9 Jul 2011 9:44 AM Pacific