Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Help desk/Archive 2 (section)

== Article not found by search ==

I added [[Flying_Scot_(dinghy)]] but if I search for "Flying Scot" either with the "Go" or "Search" button the article does not show up.  The only way the article shows up is if "Flying Scot (dinghy)" is specified (order does matter) and the "Go" button is used.  This seems to be very limiting since the user has to know exactly what they are looking for.  I'm sure this problem has come up before but I haven't found any discussion about it so far.  Is there any nice solution for this problem?
--[[User:Feral Duck|Feral Duck]] 19:44, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

:Yes, there is.  If you go to any article and put the following text in:
::<nowiki>#REDIRECT [[foo]]</nowiki>
:then typing in that article name will automatically get sent to foo.

:As for the searching, Wikipedia used to have a search function.  However, as the database got larger and traffic got heavier, it started to eat up too much computer power.  Now we use a google search, which works, but doesn't find pages until it crawls them (generally once a week or so).  Hope that helps! [[User:Meelar|[[User:Meelar|Meelar]] [[User talk:Meelar|(talk)]]]] 19:51, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)