[Haskell-cafe] Haskell wiki is searched by google.

[Richard Kelsall]

Daniil Elovkov wrote:
> Richard Kelsall wrote:
>> Daniil Elovkov wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I remember there was a problem with haskell wiki pages not being 
>>> indexed and searched.
>>>
>>> Now it seems to work perfectly. Actually typing 'monomorphism 
>>> restriction' in google I see the appropriate wiki page as the first 
>>> result.
>>>
>>> I must have missed the moment when it was fixed. Just sharing my 
>>> observations. Thanks.
>>
>> Hello Daniil, I think I may have started that discussion here :
>>
>> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2007-November/035127.html
>>
>> but sadly a search for mdo in the Search box at the top of this page
>>
>> http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell
>>
>> still gives no results. I suspect something needs adjusting in the
>> configuration of MediaWiki for the haskellwiki.
>>
> Indeed.
> 
> But searching with google
> 
>    mdo site:haskell.org/haskellwiki
> 
> does a pretty good job - 6 results :)
> 
I have to admit I haven't yet discovered how all the documentation fits
together. I set the "Search haskell.org" link on left on the front page
to search Google like this

mdo site:haskell.org

for "mdo" which gives 577 results including the relevant page of the
GHC documentation at the top. But I'm not really sure it should search
everything on haskell.org. I can easily change this if anybody suggests
a better search criteria.

I looked all over the wiki for some way to warn users that the search
results might be incomplete. All the relevant bits - like the search
results messages - appeared to be locked against me changing them.
I'm happy to Google for things, but I don't think it's good to have
a misleading search box on the front page.


Richard.