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.
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