[Foundation-l] Darwinian search on wikipedia

Benjamin Piwowarski benjamin at bpiwowar.net
Tue May 26 14:35:20 UTC 2009


On 26 May 2009, at 14:43, Nathan wrote:

> To make sure I'm understanding you correctly... You would like to add
> academic or other (non-major) search engines to the drop down box on
> Special:Search on the English Wikipedia? That currently allows  
> searching via
> Google, Yahoo, Windows Live, Wikiwix and Exalead in addition to the
> MediaWiki search.
Yes, that would be a good starting idea, although it would be nice to  
see it as an option for all the searches (i.e. using the search box  
that appears on all the pages of wikipedia) - but may be this can be  
done latter.


> Probably the best list for this sort of discussion is wikitech-l.
OK, I will write to this list, thanks.

Thanks
Benjamin



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