Aileen makes a good point.

But seriously though, I'm confused about what just happened. I think there are two interesting ideas being proposed here.

One the examination of a theoretical argument -- that English Wikipedia is a type of system that requires *adaptive capacity* in order to survive and that a decline in its *adaptive capacity* has caused measurable declines in fitness metrics. This came paired with a call to action -- to ask "why not?"

The other is an insightful feature request to include results from related wikis when using Special:Search. Given the availability of the search API[1], the worst technical hurdles seem to have been circumvented. If a reasonable justification can be given[2], the search team might pick it up. Patch sets, of course, would be fastest.

1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Search 2. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&...

-Aaron

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Aileen Oeberst a.oeberst@iwm-kmrc.de wrote:

I am currently on vacation and will not be able to answer your mail before November 10. But I will get back then as soon as possible.

Best regards, Aileen Oeberst

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