<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Tirkon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tirkon33@yahoo.de">tirkon33@yahoo.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello, the OSM-Wiki Search does not work. E.g. a search (all options<br>
activated) for "ostfriesland" does not find this page:<br>
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Andre68" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Andre68</a><br>
allthough the word "Ostfriesland" is present there.<br>
"luftbilder" and "lauf" does not find:<br>
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Luftbilder_aus_Lauf" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Luftbilder_aus_Lauf</a><br>
and "boot" does not find:<br>
><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Boot_D%C3%BCsseldorf_23.-31.1.2010" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Boot_Düsseldorf_23.-31.1.2010</a><br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>MediaWiki search is pretty weak in general. If this is a specific issue for those terms, consider making a page that links there directly. <br><br>Maybe the search index is out of date...<br><br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Because the Google search<br>
ostfriesland site:<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org</a><br>
does not find<br>
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Andre68" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Andre68</a><br>
as well, the problem is possibly located in the Wiki and not in the<br>
search-process.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>In some wikis, user pages are deliberately set up not to appear on Google. Google a few users I can think of turns up nothing, but googling "user site:<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org">wiki.openstreetmap.org</a>" does show hits, so I guess Google's index is just out of date.<br>
<br>Steve<br></div></div><br>