Are other wikis having trouble with poor search results? At sryth.wikia.com, if I search for "starlight" the Tunic of Starlight shows up as the 2nd result. If I search for "tunic of starlight" or any variation of thereof, Tunic of Starlight is not in the results at all.
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Wikia has two types of searches:
- a simple search that only looks at page titles. This search is rather dumb. It will only find pages whose title starts with your search term. This search is used for the autocomplete on the search box. For your wiki this search is completely useless since most page titles seem to start with "Item XXX"
- a full text search that ignores the page titles and looks at their contents only. Whether this search can find what you're looking for depends on how many times an article mentions its titular subject in the body text.
In short: Your prospects are grim.
Try google!
(edited by Pecoes)
Thanks for the explanation! At least now it's clear what's not working...
(edited by Psychoadept)
It also never hurts to report it as a bug.
(edited by Fandyllic)
Done, thanks!
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On the other hand, if you search in the relevant namespace only, Tunic of Starlight comes right up when you search for it.
(edited by CzechOut)