G'day Brion and the Group
At 04:42 PM 4/12/03 -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
On Dec 4, 2003, at 16:36, Andrew
Alder wrote:
Again, agree. I've now been through
this both on the list and on the Pump. My comments relate to *readers*,
not *contributors*.
Contributors certainly need fully realtime tools, which means in-house. I
said that before.
So why are we talking about this? Google isn't going to vanish from the
web because we get the internal search back online.
We can drop it anytime you like.
I don't understand that last quip. I don't think anyone proposed anything
like that.
In summary, questions that have been raised (with any useful answers I
think are agreed) were:
* Has there been previous discussion or thought as to whether the
in-house search (hence IHS) offers any advantages over Google?
A: No.
* Are there any advantages to IHS?
A: For contributors, Yes.
A: For readers, No.
* Are there any disadvantages to IHS?
A: Yes.
* Is it a case of one or the other?
A: Not necessarily, there may be other options that offer the advantages
of both.
It's just an attempt at some lateral thinking.
The discussion would be better on the Wiki than on the email list IMO,
but apart from myself nobody was interested in talking about it on the
Village Pump (where someone else raised it), while here we've had a
discussion which I at least find quite a clutter in the mailbox. On the
Wiki I can easily scroll up and down the discussion in a single screen,
which I like, and refactor useful content with a few clicks. It's many
times more time and trouble to do this on an email list. My personal
productivity drops to somewhere between one-third and one-tenth I
estimate, depending on the subject, which is annoying.
I guess you're finding the same problem.
I guess also that the easiest thing would be just to go back to what we
had before performance problems led to disabling the internal search. I
can't even remember what that was, so I'll have no complaints either
way.
Anyway, that's what I think we've been talking about, and I think the
"why" is obvious: To get the best possible Wikipedia.
Andrew A
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