On 9/24/07, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Losing the ability to search the user space
(something tells me
MediaWiki's search will never be as good as Google's) is a significant
cost to prevent a very unlikely risk.
I bet Google would be willing to provide Wikipedia with its own
private Google search appliance if "powered by Google" with a link was
at the bottom of the results. Of course, that'd probably piss off
some Wikipedians.
Alternatively, the Google Mini Search Appliance is only $2000, and
would probably be enough to do the trick.
What in the user space is so important anyway? Certainly,
almost none of it is of interest to the average non-Wikipaedian.
Is it really worth the risk of having defamation on top of Google
and people coming to Wikipaedia for free blogspace?