Hi Samuel, thanks for your kind words. I'm going to contact you to create the account. Your experience in so many open-knowledge projects would be helpful!
2013/8/4 Samuel Klein <[email protected]> > Hi, awesome to see thid move forward. This is solving a major namespace > style problem (for the namespace of queries) and I fully support it. Good > luck with the work and I would love to help test the beta. > > Sam. > On Aug 4, 2013 12:24 AM, "Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi all again; >> >> After some months, we have the domain for LibreFind[1] and some usable >> results[2][3] (the bot is running). Also, there is a mailing list[4] and a >> Google Code project[5]. >> >> I would like you can join the brainstorm. We need to establish some >> policies about how to sort results, bots to check dead links, crawlers to >> improve the results, and many more. You can request an account for the >> closed beta. >> >> Thanks for your time, >> emijrp >> >> [1] http://www.librefind.org >> [2] http://www.librefind.org/wiki/Spain >> [3] http://www.librefind.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe >> [4] http://groups.google.com/group/librefind >> [5] https://code.google.com/p/librefind/ >> >> 2012/10/27 emijrp <[email protected]> >> >>> After some tests and usability improvements, I'm going to launch an >>> English alpha version. >>> >>> I still need a cool name for the project, any idea? >>> >>> Stay tunned. >>> >>> >>> 2012/10/23 emijrp <[email protected]> >>> >>>> Yes, there are some options: (semi)protections, blocks, spam black >>>> lists, flaggedrevs, abuse filter and some more. All them are well known >>>> MediaWiki features and extensions. >>>> >>>> Thanks for your interest. >>>> >>>> >>>> 2012/10/23 ENWP Pine <[email protected]> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> I agree that this sounds like an interesting experiment. I hope that >>>>> you get good faith editors. I worry that you’ll get COI editors playing >>>>> with the search rankings. Do you have a way in mind to deal with that >>>>> issue? >>>>> >>>>> Pine >>>>> >>>>> *From:* emijrp <[email protected]> >>>>> *Sent:* Monday, 22 October, 2012 08:29 >>>>> *To:* Research into Wikimedia content and >>>>> communities<[email protected]> >>>>> *Subject:* [Wiki-research-l] A wiki search engine >>>>> >>>>> Hi all; >>>>> >>>>> I'm starting a new project, a wiki search engine. It uses MediaWiki, >>>>> Semantic MediaWiki and other minor extensions, and some tricky templates >>>>> and bots. >>>>> >>>>> I remember Wikia Search and how it failed. It had the mini-article >>>>> thingy for the introduction, and then a lot of links compiled by a >>>>> crawler. >>>>> Also something similar to a social network. >>>>> >>>>> My project idea (which still needs a cool name) is different. >>>>> Althought it uses an introduction and images copied from Wikipedia, and >>>>> some links from the "External links" sections, it is only a start. The >>>>> purpose is that community adds, removes and orders the results for each >>>>> term, and creates redirects for similar terms to avoid duplicates. >>>>> >>>>> Why this? I think that Google PageRank isn't enough. It is frequently >>>>> abused by farmlinks, SEOs and other people trying to put their websites >>>>> above. >>>>> >>>>> Search "Shakira" in Google for example. You see 1) Official site, 2) >>>>> Wikipedia 3) Twitter 4) Facebook, then some videos, some news, some >>>>> images, >>>>> Myspace. It wastes 3 or more results in obvious nice sites (WP, TW, FB). >>>>> The wiki search engine puts these sites in the top, and an introduction >>>>> and >>>>> related terms, leaving all the space below to not so obvious but >>>>> interesting websites. Also, if you search for "semantic queries" like >>>>> "right-wing newspapers" in Google, you won't find real newspapers but >>>>> "people and sites discussing about ring-wing newspapers". Or latex and >>>>> LaTeX being shown in the same results pages. These issues can be resolved >>>>> with disambiguation result pages. >>>>> >>>>> How we choose which results are above or below? The rules are not >>>>> fully designed yet, but we can put official sites in the first place, then >>>>> .gov or .edu domains which are important ones, and later unofficial >>>>> websites, blogs, giving priority to local language, etc. And reaching >>>>> consensus. >>>>> >>>>> We can control aggresive spam with spam blacklists, semi-protect or >>>>> protect highly visible pages, and use bots or tools to check changes. >>>>> >>>>> It obviously has a CC BY-SA license and results can be exported. I >>>>> think that this approach is the opposite to Google today. >>>>> >>>>> For weird queries like "Albert Einstein birthplace" we can redirect to >>>>> the most obvious results page (in this case Albert Einstein) using a >>>>> hand-made redirect or by software (some little change in MediaWiki). >>>>> >>>>> You can check a pretty alpha version here http://www.todogratix.es(only >>>>> Spanish by now sorry) which I'm feeding with some bots. >>>>> >>>>> I think that it is an interesting experiment. I'm open to your >>>>> questions and feedback. >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> emijrp >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada. E-mail: emijrp AT gmail DOT com >>>>> Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain) >>>>> Projects: AVBOT <http://code.google.com/p/avbot/> | >>>>> StatMediaWiki<http://statmediawiki.forja.rediris.es> >>>>> | WikiEvidens <http://code.google.com/p/wikievidens/> | >>>>> WikiPapers<http://wikipapers.referata.com> >>>>> | WikiTeam <http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/> >>>>> Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/emijrp/ >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------ >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada. E-mail: emijrp AT gmail DOT com >>>> Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain) >>>> Projects: AVBOT <http://code.google.com/p/avbot/> | >>>> StatMediaWiki<http://statmediawiki.forja.rediris.es> >>>> | WikiEvidens <http://code.google.com/p/wikievidens/> | >>>> WikiPapers<http://wikipapers.referata.com> >>>> | WikiTeam <http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/> >>>> Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/emijrp/ >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada. E-mail: emijrp AT gmail DOT com >>> Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain) >>> Projects: AVBOT <http://code.google.com/p/avbot/> | >>> StatMediaWiki<http://statmediawiki.forja.rediris.es> >>> | WikiEvidens <http://code.google.com/p/wikievidens/> | >>> WikiPapers<http://wikipapers.referata.com> >>> | WikiTeam <http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/> >>> Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/emijrp/ >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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