I'd love to see the internal search become the best way to find real-time new changes to articles -- and even add features for collaboratively improving common search topics.
SJ On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 6:12 PM, FT2 <[email protected]> wrote: > While the future isn't yet known, at present internal search is only > accessible as a specialist "wikipedia search engine". > > For better or worse it's like any forum search; in that there is no major > external interface and it has not become widely relied on like google or > similar as a routine port of call for anyone seeking in-depth information > on > a person (the main reason for NOINDEXing of pages). > > An employer for example is far more likely to use google or yahoo, than > wikipedia internal search, partly because of prominence, familiarity, lack > of awareness, and because most people checking if someone's "known" online > don't exhaustively search every place they might have an account -- they > google them or look on major social networking sites. Wikipedia is big, but > it's no more a routine "major social networking site" than many others. In > that context myspace, facebook, blogs, spidered news media, and personal > web > pages are far better known and used. > > Should that change and Wikipedia become a prominent "first place to search > for non-notable people one knows or might be interested in who might have a > real-name mention on there as an account owner" (not that likely) then at > that point NOINDEX might conceivably switch to signify "don't return this > in > an internal search if the user isn't approved/is unconfirmed/isn't an > admin, > or whatever it at that point. Or there might be a list of "terms not to > return on NOINDEXed user and project pages" that would mean someone > searching for an incident as an incident might find a page but someone > entering a real name as a search term would not. But that's not presently > on > the horizons. > > Some thoughts. > > FT2 > > > > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 8:08 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Why couldn't a person simply scan userspace using all sorts of searches > on > > "the" and "and" and so on, and simply repost the entire contents with > deep > > links to an external indexed page? > > > > No indexing and then allowing internal searches anyway seems like hiding > an > > elephant behind a bucket. > > > > > > **************A bad credit score is 600 & below. Checking won't affect > your > > score. See now! > > ( > > > http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222377105x1201454426/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgI > > D=62&bcd=JulyBadfooterNO62) > > _______________________________________________ > > WikiEN-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
