[Search-l] the concept of a wiki mini article for search results

[jer]

I take no credit for this idea, it's actually Jimmy's and has been  
bouncing around in my head since he mentioned it:

The concept is quite simple, what if there were a placeholder for  
miniature wiki articles above any search result?  These would be very  
small and could serve as a very simple human-powered search  
function.  The idea isn't to create a summary article for every  
single popular keyword, in fact it's almost the opposite, to create  
articles for only the search terms that are the most difficult and  
generally don't work well.

These mini articles would be treated like any normal wiki text and  
managed via the same customs everyone is already familiar with.   
Since they are just a short guide there would only need to be a few  
lines per article, and there may a class of common ones that become  
almost templates (like misspellings an automated system misses, or  
easy double-meaning disambig articles).

It's also important that these articles aren't search results, they  
are just a special fixture intended to guide a searcher to the right  
results.  Therefore the only real restriction is that they can't link  
to anything but other search terms.  It's a big restriction though,  
and one well worth debating, as it would lower the attraction as a  
spamming target, but also lower the value when there is no search  
term to link to that will really help the searcher.

I hope I didn't do the idea any injustice by explaining it poorly and  
Jimmy do jump in if so.  I was hoping to have a little test area to  
play with this concept while we discuss is, but I think anything  
resembling a search in any kind of experimental form right now might  
get the wrong kind of attention :)

Jer