įurthermore, for any changes in wording, the search index is updated within seconds. If this is unacceptable for a particular use case, within user search options the title completion can be changed to classic prefix search which uses the full-text search index.Ī 'full text search' is an 'indexed search'.Īll pages are stored in the wiki database, and all the words in the non-redirect pages are stored in the search database, which is an index to practically the full text of the wiki.Įach visible word is indexed to the list of pages where it is found, so a search for a word is as fast as looking up a single-record. This index is updated once a day and mirrors what was found in the full-text search index at the time the index was updated.ĭepending on timing a new page could take two days to be found in the fuzzy title autocomplete. The second index to consider is the fuzzy auto-complete title search. The first is full-text search, on Special:Search.Ĭhanges to pages should appear within a few minutes in the search results, but 30 minutes is still considered normal operation.Ĭhanges to templates should take effect in articles that include the template in a few minutes, taking up to several hours depending on the number of pages using the template.Ī null edit to the article will force the change through, but that shouldn't be required if everything is going well.

There are two primary search indexes to consider:

How frequently is the search index updated?

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