User blog comment:RansomTime/Assistance Assistance - best practices for helping out on Community Central/@comment-26402117-20160711162948/@comment-24473195-20160711170811

I also use google's site functionality, but I certainly wouldn't go around advertising it as a solution for wikia's community problems. In fact, some pages might deliberately not be indexed by search engines which means they'll be ignored and / or it'll fail to find that content.

Special:Search HAS already improved, but wikia put itself in this predicament by heavily customizing mediawiki, and preventing themselves from upgrading it easily. One extension that is orders of magnitudes better than wikia's default is Extension:CirrusSearch.

Community.central also put itself into a another predicament by blocking new pages in the main namespace, and making the situation around editing help pages somewhat complicated. So even if people wanted to help improve it they can't. This seems to have been done to reduce spam, but a separate group could have been easily created for the purpose of improving docs.