Hi,
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Guillaume Paumier gpaumier@wikimedia.org wrote:
- Google custom search: Waldir recently used Google Custom Search to
created a search tool to find technical information across many pages and sites where information is currently fragmented: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-March/067450.html . We could set up a similar tool (or a floss alternative) that would include all glossaries. By advertising the tool prominently on existing glossary pages (so that users know it exists), this could allow us to curate more specific glossaries, while keeping them all searchable with one tool.
Just a quick note to let people know that this is now up and running: https://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=015296225943515200682:ds3sfewbbrw
(Note to Ghostery users: you'll have to enable "Google AJAX Search API" to see search results.)
I'm slightly annoyed that this is a third-party tool and I'd much prefer a floss alternative running on Tool Labs or something, but until that happens, we have a working tool we can use to search a term across scattered Wikimedia-related glossaries.
I'd like to find people to help maintain the URL list (right now there's a version at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=5406259 ) so if you'd like to help, contact me offlist and I'll give you access.
The next step is to better organize the glossaries, and actually add definitions; I'll start another thread later about this.
-- Guillaume Paumier Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation https://donate.wikimedia.org