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 <emijrp(a)gmail.com>
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 <deyntestiss(a)hotmail.com>
>
> 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 <emijrp(a)gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, 22 October, 2012 08:29
> *To:* Research into Wikimedia content and
communities<wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> *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
>
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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: