On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Domas Mituzas <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Dec 8, 2010, at 6:21 PM, Mike Dupont wrote: >>> >>>> Sounds like we need to have a notable search engine that includes only >>>> "approved and allowed" sources, that would be nice to have. >>> >>> Sounds like a great community project, Wiki Search! >> >> yes it would be great. As i said, it could just include all pages >> listed as REF pages and that would allow people to review the results >> and find pages that should not belong. >> >> We also need to cache all these pages, best would be with a revision >> history. It should be similar to or using archive.org. >> >> The searching could also use lucene or some other project. It does not >> have to be google. >> >> On this note, I would really like to see a wordindex for openstreetmap >> as well, there is a huge amount of information that could be relevant >> in osm that should be easier to use in WP. >> >> mike > > Openstreetmap is a wiki still in the "Wild West" phase. Words cannot > express the nonsense it hosts.
If you are looking for a place named "X" or a location for some article then it would be nice to have a better search engine of that content. Wikipedia can help. Of course the WP articles are of a higher standard than alot of OSM data, but there is a greater coverage. There are alot of articles with no coords that could be fixed or assisted by editor having a faster and better index to the OSM data, no doubt. mike _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
