I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking this Michael. Reading the documents
I've seen, it seemed like (1) to me, but a lot of the assumptions seem to
lean towards (3). If it is (1), then that is an entirely reasonable thing
for the Foundation to be putting development effort into. The problem is
that the statements in the grant documents are quite vague, and given the
rest of the shenanigans that the WMF has been involved in lately, people
are quite predictably jumping to the least flattering conclusion.
Cheers,
Craig
On 16 February 2016 at 05:36, Michael Peel <email(a)mikepeel.net> wrote:
On 15 Feb 2016, at 17:10, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hoi,
The notion that WMF should out google Google is stupid, certainly at that
kind of money.
I'm still confused about what kind of 'search engine' is actually being
proposed here. Is it:
1) Wikimedia specific: index all of Wikimedia's content and make that
easier for users of the sites to find
2) Wikimedia + selected others: like (1), but also allow some other
like-minded sources into the mix
3) Google-scale: index everything (duckduckgo-like)
... or somewhere on the scale between those points?
A lot of people seem to be assuming (3), others are liking the idea of
(1), but (2) (or maybe (1) leading to (2)) might be closer to the reality?
Thanks,
Mike
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