Forum:Searching help always gives no results

I went to help. I went to search help. It took me to here: http://help.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Search

Now, when I search for anything, I get no results. I even searched for "The Basics" - the name of one of the help pages and got nothing. And yes, I had 'Help' and 'Advice' sections ticked.

Hmmm. Nosignal 22:49, September 17, 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm checking, but it looks to be working for me. Were you logged in or out when you tried, and (just in case) what browser are you using? 12:14, September 18, 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for looking in to it. I just tried to replicate it too and the problem seems to have gone away. In fact the "Search Help" is gone, replaced by "Click here to search Shared Help", and the "Advice" namespace is gone. Quite a few changes - but for the better. I was in Opera (and loving it) both then and now. I am logged in now - not sure about last time. Nosignal Nov 25, 2009 (UTC)


 * My hunch is that during your earlier visit to w:c:help you may have seen/used the WikiPage widget displayed in the Monaco sidebar. At w:c:help:MediaWiki:Widgetwikipage that widget is defined to display a search box with a narrower scope (just the Help and Advice namespaces) than the search box found at the very top of the navigation sidebar.
 * fwiw, I find my most efficient search if help to be a simple browser level key word search (Ctrl+F) of the Help:Index alphabetically sorted list of topics. This is especially true if my chosen keyword is "wrong" because as I jump/scroll through tat index another relevant word often jumps out at me. -- najevi 06:56, November 25, 2009 (UTC)