LQWiki talk:Searching

I think the search button is broken.

Suppose I am searching for old conversations I have participated in. I type: "LionKimbro" into the Search box on the right.

I get back this page which says, "Showing below 0 results starting with #1."

Okay, but "LQWiki talk" doesn't seem to have a check in it. It probably didn't check the talk pages.

So, I uncheck everything, check "LQWiki" and then "LQWiki talk", and type "LionKimbro" into the "Search For" box. Click "search."

I get back this, which says at the top of the page: 'For query ""' - 'Badly formed search query.'

If this doesn't work, I think that the page here should just say it doesn't work. "Don't bother trying anything more complicated than a simple search; it's broken."

LionKimbro

For now, you might want to go to your userpage and look at either user contributions or "what links here". I'll pass along the bug to the powers-that-be. Crazyeddie 18:47, Feb 8, 2005 (EST)

Or alternately, simply go into your Preferences and then checkbox which namespaces you want searched by default - you can get access to a listing of your Talk page contributions by checkboxing "Talk" etc, etc, have a look at what checkboxes you want to include and remember to save your preferences after the change - - regards the search dialog at the bottom of a search results page producing "Badly formed search query" a note has been put in about that to Jeremy & David. Skyline 20:43, Feb 8, 2005 (EST)


 * This bug should now be fixed. If you try the process again it should work, the URLs above will still be invalid though.  Please let us know ASAP if there is still a problem. David ross 15:47, Feb 10, 2005 (EST)