User blog comment:Daniel Baran/Search Developments: Big Picture/@comment-188432-20120511214532/@comment-188432-20120512131859

Oh, I see what you mean. If I click to a tab, and then click back to advanced, it'll reset the boxes with whatever was default for that previous tab. So if I click to "help and project pages" and then back to advanced, "help" and "project" are selected.

Thus, if I go to "everything" and then back to advanced, all the boxes are ticked. Yeah, that doesn't work for us. "Everything" can't include Howling and Howling talk on our wiki. Is there some way we can get "Everything" redefined?

Also, since when is the definition of a "content page" the sum of main, user blog, and blog namespaces? I've never heard "content pages" defined in that way before. Is there any way to get blogs removed from the definition of "content", at least as far as searching goes?

Moreover, does Special:Preferences/Under the hood have any effect on searching at all anymore? The defaults I have there certainly don't match what I'm getting anywhere. I mean, according to my personal defaults — not to mention the global ones I know I set up through Special:Contact — blogs aren't to be searched. But they now pop up in a standard search, sometimes above results in the main namespace!

I'm all for opening up discovery of the wiki, but blogs aren't content of the same order as main articles. They're user ramblings that are very, very hard to regulate. People can and do put spoilers into blogs and we've got to protect our users from spoilers to the maximum extent possible. We've lost great editors in the past because they're enjoyment of current Doctor Who was ruined by searches that threw up results they weren't at all expecting to see.