Wiki search

Functionality similar to this can be seen all over the place:

‘setcore’ reveals no results but search suggestions reveals it. However, if I could only remember ‘guienabled’ and wanted to know what it was, the auto-suggest wouldn’t work here. The wiki’s had some great updates, but the search is still lacking.

You can specifically set partial matches with the asterisk, but I believe that partial matches should be implied. In addition, I think that the API box under Advanced should be default off, as it only creates search results spam.

If I type an exact match in, I think it would be good to send me directly to the page for it unless I insert a character into the search showing I don’t want that exact phrase, such as an asterisk.

I have searched explicitly for superclass, but this is just a demo of result spam. Superclass pages are extremely small and I don’t think that anybody will get legitimate help from these pages, so they should be removed from search results unless you check a box under Advanced.

Why display a redirect first? Redirects should also be replaced with their destination (any objections?), and then only appear once. In here, there are many results that take you to the same page, and it makes searching unintuitive.

I can’t think of any more right now, but anybody is free to attach more screenshots.

That first one (setcoregui) is odd, I’ll see if there is anything that can be done about it.

We already have the functionality you request when searching for “Players”. The search bar in the upper right by default goes directly to a page if there is a title match. You get a list of results if you either select “containing” from the upper right search, or if you use the wiki’s search page.

As for the rest, my plan is to nuke the old API pages once we are comfortable with the new ones (which should be very soon). That should clean up the search substantially as there won’t be any extraneous pages laying around.

I’d like to point out, that you can literally search “Roblox WIKI [Page]” on Google, and come up with better results than the website’s engine could have found.