[Mediawiki-l] Re: idea: Wiki-Index

[András Kardos]

Sy Ali <sy1234 at ...> writes:

> I don't like the idea of editors needing to do things like this
> manually.  I like the idea of having mediawiki do it  Martin mentioned
> Google.. they index wikipedia very well, and it's a "free" * way to
> have good indexing done.
> 
> * Not totally free because of advertising on search result pages.
> 

The whole Wikipedia is done "manually". This indexing is just a way to make this
knowledge more accessible. Google is fine for page-like information, but not
database like. You can't list people born in France in the time of World War 1,
thogh this information is "hidden" in wikipedia.

Some people like to write articles, others (like myself) would do this indexing
stuff better. It's a personality thing...