[WikiEN-l] Citizendium on quality

[Thomas Dalton]

On 19/12/2007, Nathan Awrich <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> Would the effect of that be to guarantee that Wikipedia is the first
> result for just about everything, and nothing else could ever get
> close? ;-P I can't see them doing it, 'tho, because Wikilinks are just
> internal and don't really contribute to the 'relevance' of a
> particular result on the wider 'net.
>
> On Dec 19, 2007 2:48 PM, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Insufficient geekitude.  References are just academic.
> >
> > Someone needs to propose to Google that they auto-expand [[Wikilinks]]
> > to Wikipedia URLs ;-)

I would join you in taking the suggestion too seriously (it's always
fun), but I don't understand it. Auto-expand them *where*? Google is a
search engine, not a web browser, it doesn't control how webpages it
links to are parsed.