1148559 - Search "Function *" should Show JS Generator page.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Ryan S. Scheel [:havvy]]

What problems would this solve?
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It would make it easier to find the MDN documentation on generators.

Who would use this?
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JS developers who know the syntax but do not necessarily remember or know the name "Generator". This includes users in ##javascript on Freenode who do `!mdn function *`.

What would users see?
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See next section.

What would users do? What would happen as a result?
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User would search MDN for something containing the RegExp /function ?\*/i.

Search results would move Generator (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Generator) to the top of the search results.

Is there anything else we should know?
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This is a special case in the search logic.

Comment 1

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

This is actually a broader problem -- searches on terms that are in code on the page are not working well. Searching on "function*" finds this page, but only ranks it 7th.

Comment 2

[BMO Automation]

MDN Web Docs' bug reporting has now moved to GitHub. From now on, please file content bugs at https://github.com/mdn/sprints/issues/ and platform bugs at https://github.com/mdn/kuma/issues/.