diff --git a/routers/api/v1/admin/adopt.go b/routers/api/v1/admin/adopt.go
index 5b65e51a922..2bc8ddc4bd6 100644
--- a/routers/api/v1/admin/adopt.go
+++ b/routers/api/v1/admin/adopt.go
@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ func ListUnadoptedRepositories(ctx *context.APIContext) {
 	//   in: query
 	//   description: page size of results
 	//   type: integer
-	// - name: pattern
+	// - name: query
 	//   in: query
-	//   description: pattern of repositories to search for
+	//   description: glob pattern of repositories to search for, in the form owner or owner/repo
 	//   type: string
 	// responses:
 	//   "200":
diff --git a/templates/swagger/v1-openapi3.generated.json b/templates/swagger/v1-openapi3.generated.json
index f0a12632662..ed97e4ff46b 100644
--- a/templates/swagger/v1-openapi3.generated.json
+++ b/templates/swagger/v1-openapi3.generated.json
@@ -11837,9 +11837,9 @@
             }
           },
           {
-            "description": "pattern of repositories to search for",
+            "description": "glob pattern of repositories to search for, in the form owner or owner/repo",
             "in": "query",
-            "name": "pattern",
+            "name": "query",
             "schema": {
               "type": "string"
             }
diff --git a/templates/swagger/v1-swagger.generated.json b/templates/swagger/v1-swagger.generated.json
index 38fc9172f4a..5dfecc50d77 100644
--- a/templates/swagger/v1-swagger.generated.json
+++ b/templates/swagger/v1-swagger.generated.json
@@ -723,8 +723,8 @@
           },
           {
             "type": "string",
-            "description": "pattern of repositories to search for",
-            "name": "pattern",
+            "description": "glob pattern of repositories to search for, in the form owner or owner/repo",
+            "name": "query",
             "in": "query"
           }
         ],