Searching help.ubuntu.com does not work anymore..

[Matthew East]

Hi,

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Marko Oreskovic <markoresko at gmail.com> wrote:
> Alan Pope wrote:
>> 2008/11/15 Marko Oreskovic <markoresko at gmail.com>:
>>> I was trying to find something on help ubunut.com today..
>>> And search for community documentation didn`t work.
>>>
>> If you login to the site you will get the normal moin moin wiki search
>> field instead.
>
> Ok, it doesn`t work.

What Alan meant was that by logging in to the wiki, you can choose the
old theme, which uses the old search box.

> Also ,as I see, it Forces me to use OpenID, not asking me if I want to
> use OpenID or I don`t.

Well... it's kind of normal for a website which needs authentication
to specify the method of authentication. It's the case with all Ubuntu
websites that require some kind of user interaction (forums, wikis,
mailing lists). I don't think you can have any valid complaints about
this.

> So it stays: Search does not work, unless google.com scripts are
> available. And that will be never.

You haven't provided any genuine reasons why using a Google search is
a bad thing. You've just bandied around some vague words like
"privacy" and "ugly" without any explanation or reasoning, with a bit
of unparticularised and unjustified anti-google rhetoric thrown in for
luck.

For us, the new search function provides a substantial new feature for
the help website, which is the ability to index both our static help
pages at help.ubuntu.com and the wiki pages at
help.ubuntu.com/community together. Up until now, we haven't had a
search function *at all* for the static help pages.

You're free to suggest improvements for the help website, and we'll
always listen to them, and where resources permit us to fix problems,
we'll do it. If you'd like to contribute constructively to the
documentation project, whether in relation to the search function or
anything else, you're also going to be very welcome. If so, please
visit https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam for information and
post here if you have any questions about contributing.

-- 
Matthew East
http://www.mdke.org
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