989050 - Add a "not" operator to the advanced search capability

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

What problems would this solve?
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The advanced search capability (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/User_guide/Advanced_search) having a "not" operator would let us do things like find pages that do not currently have an SEO summary set by using a term like "css_classname=!seoSummary".

Who would use this?
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Users trying to make specific types of tweaks to content, such as adding SEO summaries to pages or looking for pages that are tagged X but not NeedsTechnicalReview, or something.

What would users see?
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No UX changes.

What would users do? What would happen as a result?
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Search would otherwise work the same.

Is there anything else we should know?
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Comment 1

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Perhaps we should take a CSS selector as an argument instead. CSS already has :not() and many other useful selectors (child, direct descendent, sibling, etc., etc., etc.) that, if later needed, would become burdensome to support manually through new URL parameters.

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/.