Things that a wiki search won't find

When you search the wiki for some words , even if there are pages with those words they will not be found.

• "and"
• "other"
• "once"
• "name"

For a list of applicable words, see https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/fulltext-stopwords.html#fulltext-stopwords-stopwords-for-myisam-search-indexes

The reason is deep in how the database that supports mediawiki works. In other words, it's the nature of the beast.

work-around to make pages searchable

Create a Redirect page for specific, likely to be searched for pages.

work-around to find pages with stopwords

If you know a page exists, but the only content you can remember to search for are stopwords, then open the list of all pages (Special:AllPages) and search inside the list with ctrl-f on your keyboard.

Related articles

Related articles:

Name ‎ (← links) Can't search for word "other" (redirect page) ‎ (← links) Redirect ‎ (← links)