Quoting from search.wikia.com: General guidelines for the social process To succeed by attracting enough users and by generating meaningful results, any socially-driven process must be based on the following principles: Competency of participants A common and clear language of possibilities Diversity of choice ...
Those goals seem to suggest that not just anyone will want to, or will be competent to, assist in pointing search terms towards specific Wikipedia text. That is, someone working on search.wikia.com might see a Wikipedia page with "tags" strewn through it that most users don't see. I don't know if that's true, I don't see information about this in a quick search of wikia-l or search.wikia.com. If it's true that WP pages will be viewable with more information by those in-the-loop, it might help out with another problem. There's a current push to insist that pages follow WP:MOS guidelines on "prettifying" markup...no-break spaces, mdashes, etc. where appropriate, but this would mean markup that newbies don't understand on every other line, in some articles. If there's going to be a "higher content" screen anyway, it might be great to push all "prettifying" markup into that screen, to keep the main edit screen cleaner. (There was some discussion of this on the recent thread Wikia-l] Techs, I'd like a quick opinion on whether certain pre-processing whenediting is likely. Dan, Dank55, #wikia, #wikia-de, #wikiversity _______________________________________________ Wikia-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l
