On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 08:22:25PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 08:25:35PM +0100, Beatrice Torracca wrote: >>Hi, >> >>working on the wiki today I noticed something strange. There are some >>pages listed in the search results that look like spam pages, but they >>are not regular pages (they look like broken links). I wasn't able to >>visualize them or remove them. >> >>I can not give any link (it does not work). One way to see some of >>them is to make a search for "support phone number" in the >>text, not the titles, of pages. >> >>Not a urgent issues of course, but something odd. > >ACK. Those *were* pages from spammers that we we blocked and then >cleaned up, but it looks like the search index still has some remnants >even so. I'll take a look and see what I can do about it. > >Thanks for reporting!
It *looks* like this was just an old cache used by the xapian search indexing. I've cleared and rebuilt the index from scratch and that seems to have solved the problem. -- Steve McIntyre 93...@debian.org Debian wiki admin - wiki.debian.org w...@debian.org
