Comment 2 for bug 1310309

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penalvch (penalvch) wrote :

Gunnar Hjalmarsson, thanks for the response.
>"I have a theory. wiki.ubuntu.com is principally intended for individuals and teams, i.e. not user documentation."

The vast majority of developer and end-user debugging documentation from all the developer teams are in wiki.ubuntu.com (ex. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures ).

>"So there is a risk that including wiki.ubuntu.com would lead to quite a few irrelevant items being included in the search results."

The current issue is that for many search terms, most or all of what results from help.ubuntu.com is either irrelevant, or lower quality results (ex. AskUbuntu PPAs/WORKAROUNDs/hacks, etc.), in comparison to wiki.ubuntu.com.

As well, the small negative of including results from wiki.ubuntu.com that wouldn't apply, is outweighed by far from the increase in relevant results from the same.

For example, if one searches for pepper, intending to find the highest quality information about Pepper Flash (i.e. no PPA, WORKAROUNDs, etc.) in help.ubuntu.com one only finds not relevant, and lower quality information in the AskUbuntu category.

However, if one does a full text search at wiki.ubuntu.com one would find the most relevant article:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Chromium/Getting-Flash?highlight=%28pepper%29

This outcome is largely reproducible across various search terms.