User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Drax Cave/@comment-188432-20130414131636

If you've only been here since about December 2012, you may not be aware that there was a whole different kind of forum. There are hundreds of discussions, stretching all the way back to 2005, under the old forum hub at Forum:Index.

However, recently it has become more difficult to search those old forums because the option to select the forum namespace (that is, namespace 110) has been withdrawn from the "advanced" tab at Special:Search. We've put in a repair ticket to try to get that namespace added back. Though Wikia have acknowledged the issue, we're still awaiting a final determination on whether this is a bug that they'll repair, or intended behaviour.

Until then, I wanted to apprise you of a manual workaround. All you have to do is add something to the search URL. Let's say that I wanted to look for discussions about "K9" in the old forum space. Here's the URL I would use:


 * http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Search?search=k9&fulltext=Search&go=Go&ns110=1&advanced=1

See what's going on? I just tack on  to tell it to go to advanced mode and make the search active in namespace 110.