https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1435506
Bug ID: 1435506
Summary: first search result for "list of files in RPM package"
is the *Romanian* documentation
Product: Fedora Documentation
Version: devel
Component: about-fedora
Severity: low
Assignee: stickster(a)gmail.com
Reporter: info(a)skierpage.com
QA Contact: docs-qa(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
CC: stickster(a)gmail.com, zach(a)oglesby.co
(This bug report is not about these specific pages, but about the multiple
undifferentiated versions of documentation pages on
docs.fedoraproject.org and
the poor search experience this engenders.)
I Googled for "list of files in RPM package" (without the quotes. First result
I get is "4.2.3. Listing the files in a package - Fedora Documentation", looks
promising. But the URL is
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/ro/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RPM...
, the *Romanian* documentation. It's mostly in English but previous and next
are "Înapoi and Înainte."
Here's another example of search failing to return an appropriate page. If I
Google "Fedora uninstall RPM package", the second result is "4.2.5
Removing
Packages - Fedora Documentation", again this looks promising. But the URL is
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/System_Administrators...
, Fedora *16* documentation. Fedora 16 reached End of Life four years ago!
How reproducible:
Every time for me, even in a private window.
Steps to Reproduce:
1.
https://www.google.com/search?q=list+of+files+in+RPM+package
2.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Fedora+uninstall+RPM
Actual results:
The only result from
docs.fedoraproject.org on the first page isn't even
English documentation. I would expect to get
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/...
as my first result.
Expected results:
Pages must identify their language [1] and give rel="alternate" links to the
page in other languages [2]. Pages should also use a canonical URL to identify
the "master" version of the documentation (Fedora 25 right now) [3], so the
Fedora 16 documentation of some feature gets lower search ranking than the
documentation for the current Fedora version. I think you could also put
language information for the canonical (most recent Fedora version) URLs into a
sitemap on
docs.fedoraproject.org [4] instead of updating all these old pages.
As far as I can tell,
docs.fedoraproject.org pages do none of these, hence it's
hit or miss what Google returns.
[1]
https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-html-language-declarations
[2]
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en
[3]
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en
[4]
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2620865?hl=en&ref_topic=...
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