[WikiEN-l] Ban notices, Wikipedia, and search engines.

[Armed Blowfish]

On 24/09/2007, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> On 9/24/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Losing the ability to search the user space (something tells me
>> MediaWiki's search will never be as good as Google's) is a significant
>> cost to prevent a very unlikely risk.
>
> I bet Google would be willing to provide Wikipedia with its own
> private Google search appliance if "powered by Google" with a link was
> at the bottom of the results.  Of course, that'd probably piss off
> some Wikipedians.
>
> Alternatively, the Google Mini Search Appliance is only $2000, and
> would probably be enough to do the trick.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FulltextSearchEngines#Google_Search_Appliance

What in the user space is so important anyway?  Certainly,
almost none of it is of interest to the average non-Wikipaedian.
Is it really worth the risk of having defamation on top of Google
and people coming to Wikipaedia for free blogspace?