search box gives out the results in unpractical order; and why are so few shown by default?
hello,
Yesterday I wanted to look up information about past releases, release
policies etc. title-querying for "Release" in the search box, a term,
which in my opinion, should render sufficient good results.
What I got:
https://wiki.debian.org/FrontPage?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=Release&titlesearch=Titles
, which is full of odd results/gibberish in relation to the needs of
someone looking for above mentioned information. (To my wrong I omitted
the result nr. 4 "CategoryRelease" either thinking of it as some
specific Release style or associating the term Category too much with
the categories in wikimedia projects where it wouldn't have been
interesting to me). But anyway my point still stays the same.
I was this time patient enough to look further on the second page (25
results are shown to me per default) to find an interesting result on
place 39, namely "DebianRelease".
This to my eyes makes the search box confusing and therefore the Debian
Wiki a bit unattractive.
The causes I see:
-results are ordered alphabetically according to their whole path
names, e.g. "DebianEdu/ReleaseNotes/Bullseye". It would be better
sorting according to same relevance criterion as hitcounts.
-and if giving it out alphabetically, it would be better to sort after
the path part between slashes (for the above mentioned example
"ReleaseNotes"). The top result of my search query being
"Brasil/GUD/SP/DebianSqueezeReleaseParty" seems pretty odd to me, but
also "Cloud (release-plan-2.jpg)".
-and thirdly I don't understand why some page search engines in the
free software community as directory.fsf.org use/have this annoying
feature of rendering only a very limited amount of results (here 25) by
default.
greetings,
kalle
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