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

[jer]

I see this as an external utility, entirely outside of the the Atlas  
stack.  It's a feature of a search result listing and tied only to  
the search terms, not to the pages, index, or ranking in any way.

There's two potential discussion threads here, one is purely the idea  
itself - what would a mini wiki article above any search result be  
like, and the other is distribution - how do lots of different  
entities support the idea together.  Getting a good sense on the  
first one is necessary to know if it's worth figuring out the second :)

Jer

On Oct 1, 2007, at 12:46 PM, William Surowiec wrote:

> Jer,
>
> I would profit if you indicate how you see the interaction in the  
> knugget food chain (factory, collector, broker) It sounds like this  
> is  something living at the broker but how strongly is it  
> influenced by the factory and collector? Is it some type of add-on  
> that depends on potential ambiguity discovered in query  
> interpretation or result grouping (and who does the heavy lifting)?
>
> Bill
>
> jer wrote:
> ...
>> 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.
> ...
>> 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.
>>
> ...