On 26 May 2009, at 13:20, geni wrote:
2009/5/26 Benjamin Piwowarski benjamin@bpiwowar.net:
I do not develop more here, since I first want to know if there is some interest.
At the present time there is a slight lack of open source search engines and people interested in working on them would probably be better of submitting patches to mediawiki's search code.
Hi,
I guess it will be harder to make people (at least from university) interested in submitting patches to an existing software than to provide a way for them to plug-in their search engines. I would at least be more interested to work that way, because it is simpler and some approaches need more than patches to be implemented. I understand that it may not fit the interests of wikipedia in general, but I think it could if done properly by stimulating people to submit alternative approaches.
Benjamin