On 9/24/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@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.