well, i was assuming those fundraising drives go towards employing some people who work on big picture infrastructure cross-project /strategy/ publicity stuff for WMF?? (and suggesting that perhaps federated WMF search could be within their circle of interest)
Erkan Yilmaz wrote:
"every cent invested" :-)
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 1:45 PM, James Neill <lists@wilderdom.com mailto:lists@wilderdom.com> wrote:
university librarians love promoting federated search - but currently very few universities provide links to WM Foundation projects because they appear to be scattered / uncoordinated http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_search i'd suggest doing this properly and officially, and that every cent invested in what would seem to be a pretty simple task, could then provide a promotional and usability coup for WMF surely, there's some beta somewhere? (i had a quick search without luck) draicone@gmail.com <mailto:draicone@gmail.com> wrote:On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Erkan Yilmaz <erkan77@gmail.com> <mailto:erkan77@gmail.com> wrote:a simple heuristic would be: type what you are looking for with the keyword "wiki" and hope that the internet search engine has it archivedTry appending " site:.org inurl:wiki inurl:en" to google/yahoo search queries. I'll see if I can build a search feed mashup later. _______________________________________________ Wikiversity-l mailing list Wikiversity-l@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikiversity-l@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l-- Email: james@wilderdom.com <mailto:james@wilderdom.com> Web: http://wilderdom.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/jtneill Wiki/blog: http://ucspace.canberra.edu.au/x/fIAeAg Bookmarks: http://del.icio.us/jtneill _______________________________________________ Wikiversity-l mailing list Wikiversity-l@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikiversity-l@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l
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