[Search-l] a few questions

[Mark (Markie)]

replies are under questions :-)

mark

On Jan 8, 2008 3:05 PM, Patrick Aljord <patcito at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a few questions about wikia.
> If I got it right, there are two ways to contribute to wikia:
> - users can contribute to wikia by writing mini articles
> - users can contribute to wikia by running a client that will crawl
> the web and send the results to wikia and those results will be
> downloadable by everyone.


yes this is pretty much right i think, although i believe that users will be
able to contribute more in the future (such as to the algorithms used, but i
dont have an exact source)

>
>
> - Is this already possible?

re the download, not just yet i think but please remeber that the beta has
only been public for around 24 hrs


>
> - Where can I download the client?


the grub client can be downloaded from  http://grub.org/html/downloads.php

>
> - The grub site doesn't seem to indicate that the grub crawling are
> sent to wikia.

hmmm, jer??


>
> - Where can I download the data dump of the results if this is at all
> possible?

again i dont think this is available yet


>
> - What technologies doest it use?

err PHP, MySql, nutch, grub and more i think


>
> - Does grub use Nutch?

yes


>
> - is there some kind of repo where I can download all the techs used by
> wikia?

not yet


>
>
> thanks in advance for your answers.
>
> Pat
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