[Search-l] Input wanted on Mini and main name spaces for Search Wikia

[Balinny]

Tom Wright wrote:
> The motivation behind providing links within mini-articles is that
> they can provide:
>
> (i) Better links.
> (ii) Information describing links (This is absent from search results.)
> (iii) Links that might be lower down the search order but are still important.
> (Example
> i. when looking up programming related terms one often doesn't get
> links to documentation because of the profusion of programming
> discussion forums.
> ii. When looking up books titles links to the full text of the book
> (if it is out of copyright) are very useful - but won't, as a rule,
> appear in searches.
> )
> (iv) Links to things that mightn't appear in the search results but
> are very important.
> (Examples: Javascript is also known as ECMAscript - you won't get
> links to ecmascript when searching for javascript - but ecmascript
> provides the only formal documentation. Also searching for web related
> terms)
> (v) A way for people who have found a the necessary link after much
> searching to store their result somewhere - thereby preventing the
> inefficiencies of other people having to do exactly the same work.
>   
IMHO we have a problem in that mini articles is the only way we can 
currently influence search results.
"Better links" or "Links too low" shouldn't be on mini articles. They 
should be got right by the search engine.
This is the only way it can scale
On the other hand, v, disambiguations, etc. are suitable for miniarticles.
Maybe we should allow the user to "reorder this search result". But 
using that isn't easy either...