Re: Gitlab wiki search

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>]

On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 at 03:00, Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org> wrote:

> It looks like that applies to GitLab pages, which have their own
> subdomain. As I recall, Google's search console requires a unique domain
> name along with some sort of proof of ownership, e.g. making a uniquely
> named file available for download.

The link from Chuck to Google's search console (or one click on at
https://search.google.com/search-console/welcome) has an option for a URL
prefix with multiple options for verification that seems it would work for
our gitlab.com/wireshark prefix.


> On 8/22/20 10:20 AM, chuck c wrote:
> >
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55827354/github-repository-not-listing-in-google-search-no-way-to-submit-url
>
> >  https://search.google.com/search-console/about
> >
> > Is there is a "wiki-master" to do the Google search config?
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 12:06 PM Graham Bloice <
> graham.bloice () trihedral com <mailto:graham.bloice () trihedral com>> wrote:
> >     The search seems to operate much like a normal wiki "full
> text search", there doesn't seem to be the equivalent of the "title search".
> >     I guess it is what it is, GitLab is a code "management" platform not
> a focused Wiki platform.
> >     Is there anyway to get Google to start indexing it so searches show
> up?  Using a Google search of "wireshark wiki submitting patches" only
> shows the old site (and my initial post in this thread), and adding a "site:
> gitlab.com <http://gitlab.com>" condition gets a "it looks like there
> aren't any great matches for your search" and a bunch of links to things
> other than what I'm looking for.
> >     On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 at 16:46, Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter () xs4all nl
> <mailto:jaap.keuter () xs4all nl>> wrote:
> >         Indeed it’s a bit coarse. It seems improvements are planned, see
> https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/wiki/#customizing-sidebar, not
> sure what that will bring.
> > >         On 22 Aug 2020, at 13:43, Graham Bloice <
> graham.bloice () trihedral com <mailto:graham.bloice () trihedral com>> wrote:
> > >         Maybe I've missed something obvious, but there doesn't seem to
> be any way to search the GitLab Wireshark wiki.  I can get a 45 page
> tabinated list of all pages  with no hint of where in the alphabet page nnn
> might be and that's not friendly.
> > >         I'm trying to find the "Submitting Patches" page which is a sub
> page of Development.  Eventually I found Development on page 7 of the list
> and the actual page I wanted on page 8 of the list.
> > >         I've now figured out that the GitLab search defaults to showing
> me things from users, which had 0 results for "submitting patches" and I
> have to click the "bubble" for Wikis to see the 12 results all of which
> show diffs of the markdown but does actually have the page I want.
> > >         IMHO not really a wiki.
> >
> >
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