Forum:Searches do not find proper page anymore

Please go to the Christian Music Wiki. The names of our song pages are named along the lines "Artist/Album/Song". However, if you search for just the song name, you get unpredictable results. With the old search system, the correct song was almost always the first choice. Now I never see it.

As an example, I would expect the search string "There to Here" to turn up as the number one result w:c:ChristianMusic:East to West/North of the Sky/There to Here. However, if that song is listed, it is buried.

I do normally put redirect pages in for each song, but I still think the search could be better. (For now, the There to Here redirect was omitted so the test suggested above would be a search rather than a redirect.) Will (talk -- contribs) 04:22, 24 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I think the problem may be, that with subpages by default not enabled in that namespace, you aren't looking for a full page name, but just a part of it: "Artist/Album/Song" is quite different than "Song". Enabling subpages in a namespace treats "Song" as the page title (or at least, more of one than without). Try a test: Create the same subpage in two namespaces, one in main and one in User:, eg w:c:christianmusic:User:Will Pittenger/Some song title and w:c:christianmusic:Test/Some song title, and see if that makes any type of search engine difference. If it does, you might request the devs enable subpages in your main namespace. --Splarka (talk) 03:20, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

So what changed other than the symptoms? It used to work just fine. Will (talk -- contribs) 21:27, 25 September 2006 (UTC)


 * BTW: Neither page showed up when I searched for "Some Song Title". I had the text in the page and in the page name. Will (talk -- contribs) 21:30, 25 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, another possibility is the search index hasn't been rebuilt lately. --Splarka (talk) 22:13, 25 September 2006 (UTC)