G'day Brion and the Group
At 04:42 PM 4/12/03 -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
On Dec 4, 2003, at 16:36, Andrew Alder wrote:
Again, agree. I've now been through this both
on the list and on the
Pump. My comments relate to *readers*, not *contributors*.
Contributors certainly need fully realtime tools, which means in-house. I
said that before.
So why are we talking about this? Google isn't going to vanish from the
web because we get the internal search back online.
We can drop it anytime you like.
I don't understand that last quip. I don't think anyone proposed anything
like that.
In summary, questions that have been raised (with any useful answers I
think are agreed) were:
* Has there been previous discussion or thought as to whether the in-house
search (hence IHS) offers any advantages over Google?
A: No.
* Are there any advantages to IHS?
A: For contributors, Yes.
A: For readers, No.
* Are there any disadvantages to IHS?
A: Yes.
* Is it a case of one or the other?
A: Not necessarily, there may be other options that offer the advantages of
both.
It's just an attempt at some lateral thinking.
The discussion would be better on the Wiki than on the email list IMO, but
apart from myself nobody was interested in talking about it on the Village
Pump (where someone else raised it), while here we've had a discussion
which I at least find quite a clutter in the mailbox. On the Wiki I can
easily scroll up and down the discussion in a single screen, which I like,
and refactor useful content with a few clicks. It's many times more time
and trouble to do this on an email list. My personal productivity drops to
somewhere between one-third and one-tenth I estimate, depending on the
subject, which is annoying.
I guess you're finding the same problem.
I guess also that the easiest thing would be just to go back to what we had
before performance problems led to disabling the internal search. I can't
even remember what that was, so I'll have no complaints either way.
Anyway, that's what I think we've been talking about, and I think the
"why"
is obvious: To get the best possible Wikipedia.
Andrew A
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