Hi, I'm still finding using wiki search a bit troublesome. For example just by poking around the wiki I found this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Docs_Project
and there I saw even more great page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/DesktopUserGuide
When I typed desktop into wiki search I was immediately sent to "Desktop" page without search showing me other search results :( Is this the intended way the wiki should work? Because on this particular topic I would much more like to be taken to Desktop user guide than on this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop
Any comments?
Cheers, Valent.
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 12:48:35PM +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
Hi, I'm still finding using wiki search a bit troublesome. For example just by poking around the wiki I found this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Docs_Project
and there I saw even more great page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/DesktopUserGuide
When I typed desktop into wiki search I was immediately sent to "Desktop" page without search showing me other search results :( Is this the intended way the wiki should work? Because on this particular topic I would much more like to be taken to Desktop user guide than on this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop
Any comments?
One comment only: the wiki search is weird. We have some options.
1) Remove the 'Go' button from the search bar on the side, or make it the non-default (clicking 'Search' would complete the search no matter what)
2) Fix search by fixing every single wiki page title
"1" could be done somewhat quickly, I could write a patch for Infrastructure at some point. "2" is what we're working on now.
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 12:48:35PM +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
Hi, I'm still finding using wiki search a bit troublesome. For example just by poking around the wiki I found this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Docs_Project
and there I saw even more great page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/DesktopUserGuide
When I typed desktop into wiki search I was immediately sent to "Desktop" page without search showing me other search results :( Is this the intended way the wiki should work? Because on this particular topic I would much more like to be taken to Desktop user guide than on this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop
The search tool does not pick out strings of characters ('desktop') from longer strings ('desktopsomethingorother'). This is one of the main reasons that page renaming is important; all the old CamelCase wiki pages are very hard to find because of that.
Now that we have Fedora 10 out and people using the wiki, it is time to finish the page renaming work.
We should now move this discussion to fedora-wiki-list. :)
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