https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1435506
Bug ID: 1435506 Summary: first search result for "list of files in RPM package" is the *Romanian* documentation Product: Fedora Documentation Version: devel Component: about-fedora Severity: low Assignee: stickster@gmail.com Reporter: info@skierpage.com QA Contact: docs-qa@lists.fedoraproject.org CC: stickster@gmail.com, zach@oglesby.co
(This bug report is not about these specific pages, but about the multiple undifferentiated versions of documentation pages on docs.fedoraproject.org and the poor search experience this engenders.)
I Googled for "list of files in RPM package" (without the quotes. First result I get is "4.2.3. Listing the files in a package - Fedora Documentation", looks promising. But the URL is https://docs.fedoraproject.org/ro/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RPM_Gu... , the *Romanian* documentation. It's mostly in English but previous and next are "Înapoi and Înainte."
Here's another example of search failing to return an appropriate page. If I Google "Fedora uninstall RPM package", the second result is "4.2.5 Removing Packages - Fedora Documentation", again this looks promising. But the URL is https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/System_Administrators_Gu... , Fedora *16* documentation. Fedora 16 reached End of Life four years ago!
How reproducible: Every time for me, even in a private window.
Steps to Reproduce: 1. https://www.google.com/search?q=list+of+files+in+RPM+package 2. https://www.google.com/search?q=Fedora+uninstall+RPM
Actual results: The only result from docs.fedoraproject.org on the first page isn't even English documentation. I would expect to get https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RPM... as my first result.
Expected results: Pages must identify their language [1] and give rel="alternate" links to the page in other languages [2]. Pages should also use a canonical URL to identify the "master" version of the documentation (Fedora 25 right now) [3], so the Fedora 16 documentation of some feature gets lower search ranking than the documentation for the current Fedora version. I think you could also put language information for the canonical (most recent Fedora version) URLs into a sitemap on docs.fedoraproject.org [4] instead of updating all these old pages. As far as I can tell, docs.fedoraproject.org pages do none of these, hence it's hit or miss what Google returns.
[1] https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-html-language-declarations [2] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en [3] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en [4] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2620865?hl=en&ref_topic=237...