On 24/09/2007, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On 9/24/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@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?