Am I doing searches wrong?

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Jummby

Well-known member
Putti said:
I can very rarely get any results to show up on the wiki when looking for items.

Like, say for example that I want to look for the item "Aetherband". I write Aetherband in the search field and the only thing that shows up in the search results is a link to the "Named item sets" page because it's mentioned there.
Same thing if I try Item:Aetherband which is what that shows up on the dropdown when writing in the search field.
It's like certain types of pages are being excluded from the search results even though I'm including all namespaces. It obviously knows the item and its page since it shows in the dropdown, but it still won't return it in the page results.
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Type in what you want on Google. Ddo than what you are trying to find
 
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citizen127

Member
Yeah, the search engine on the wikki is case sensitive and all the titles are capitalized. I'd like to know how that happened. It's mind boggling. I don't think I've ever seen a search engine that forces you to capitalize.
 
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Lacci

Well-known member
citizen127 said:
Yeah, the search engine on the wikki is case sensitive and all the titles are capitalized. I'd like to know how that happened. It's mind boggling. I don't think I've ever seen a search engine that forces you to capitalize.
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what browser are you using ? Because for me, it´s not case sensitive. Capital letters or not, I always get the same search results.
(I´m using chrome)
 
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CBDunk

Well-known member
Actually, the wiki search pop-up results are pretty good;

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PurpleSerpent

Monster Hunter of Moderate Renown
citizen127 said:
Yeah, the search engine on the wikki is case sensitive and all the titles are capitalized. I'd like to know how that happened. It's mind boggling. I don't think I've ever seen a search engine that forces you to capitalize.
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As I've stated before, this is part and parcel of the default search bar included with the MediaWiki software the wiki is built on. We had a third-party extension that improved searching, but it stopped being maintained years ago and no longer works with our version of MediaWiki. (That's the reason our search bar broke entirely for a week back in 2021, for the record.)
 
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