Searching on https://help.ubuntu.com/ doesn't produce results from wiki.ubuntu.com
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Online publishing of the Ubuntu documentation |
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Bug Description
What is expected to happen is when one goes to:
https:/
and searches for example Debugging, one of the results would be:
https:/
However, no results from wiki.ubuntu.com are listed under any of the default categories (All Results, Official, Community, Technical, AskUbuntu). One would have to know upfront from trial and error/experience that in order to get results from wiki.ubuntu.com one has to go to there and then look it up.
While I am aware of the different articles that I typically look for, and on which page to search for them, I constantly find myself desiring to be able to do a one stop shop search, instead of flipping between the two. Given this, having this searching capability would certainly empower the Ubuntu Community in their efforts to search for relevant documentation.
One potential resolution would be to integrate the results from wiki.ubuntu.com into Official, as the articles there tend to be released from Ubuntu/Canonical developers, and are of high technical quality.
If this would not be preferred, another solution would be to create a new search category (ex. Ubuntu Wiki), that populates results from wiki.ubuntu.com only.
Related branches
affects: | ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) → help.ubuntu.com |
Hi Christopher,
While I don't know why wiki.ubuntu.com is not included in the results generated by that search feature, I have a theory. wiki.ubuntu.com is principally intended for individuals and teams, i.e. not user documentation. So there is a risk that including wiki.ubuntu.com would lead to quite a few irrelevant items being included in the search results.
Possibly it would be better to move docs pages in wiki.ubuntu.com to help.ubuntu. com/community. But I have certainly no firm opinion.