Anthony wrote:
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.
I'm certain this has been suggested in the past. However, we use free software for (virtually?) all of the infrastructure, and so a Google device (or something like it) is not really a consideration.
-Rich Holton