Sy Ali <sy1234@...> 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...