- search for "house phica": 12 hits. Those are the same 2 pages over and over.
- search for "who are you and what":
504 Gateway Time-out. Generally most phrases starting with a common word produce the same error.
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Known issue. Orain is switching hosts and caching to remedy this in the next couple of days.
Search now seems broken completely. Searching for a string that isn't an article title not only results in a gateway timeout, but seems to hang up the entire server until the gateway timeout is produced.
Orain staff still working on this.
Okay. This also brings up a related topic: It's hard to search for something that's already an article title (for instance, to find unlinked instances of it so that I can link them to the article). If you want to search for something that's already an article title, you need to search for a non-title, then use the search box you get from those results--that search box produces the results, while the initial search box just directly takes you to the article.
That's partially a design of MediaWiki's built in search feature, but here's a work around:
Say "Title 1" is a linked title but "Title One" is not and needs to be redirected. Go to the page that needs turned into a redirect and open up a new tab for the "What Links Here" option on the sidebar and see what it links to, then turn it into the appropriate redirect.
FYI, PmWiki is even worse, lacking a built in "What Links Here" option.
It's not for redirects, it's for new pages. I create a page about Eclipse Comics, then I want to search for Eclipse Comics in other pages so I can make them links to my new page.
Our search is kinda borked right now, but when it's working again, do this.
1. Click the hourglass icon on search menu.
2. When at the search special page, add "Eclipse Comics" (the " marks single out those words). This should bring up every page mentioning those terms.
For now, you can go to Google and do something similar by looking for all pages on this site with those terms.
The link to open a page's wick list is called "What links here" in MediaWiki and "related" in the heavily customized version of PmWiki used on TV Tropes. For example, compare our Special:WhatLinksHere/Wick to their Special:WhatLinksHere/Wick.
Not a big surprise, IMO.
PmWiki and MediaWiki do have some similar markup and features due to being coded in PHP for the same general purpose, but how they do that is different in many ways, but yeah, in this they work almost the same.