Is the wiki manual rollover workflow contaminating the search results? [No]

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I was grumbling to myself about how the wiki’s search form always seems to present results with outdated version and non-english pages before the current-version English revision.

I wonder if the rollover process is creating an artificial bias towards the less desirable pages?

Perhaps all the edits that tweak and lock the pages for archiving make those pages seem “fresher” than their more current variants? Likewise, the translation rollovers probably are done AFTER the new version English rolloever, making them seem fresher too.

Further, updates notices for the main pages trigger translators who synchronize content changes. (For example, @Leonhaeuser is very diligent about updating the Deutsch pages when content is added to a main wiki article. So the German pages will tend to seem “more fresh” than the Engish ones.)

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Probably not as I also have a .htaccess rule against each of the past user manuals that request the search engines ignore them. I also manually submit each of the new pages one at a time to the search engines as part of the process. Only catch is it takes time for the existing older user manuals to drop out of the search results over which I have no control!

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I was talking about the results using the search on the sidebar. As opposed to the external search engines. I wonder if it could reference the .htaccess control file too?