[Search-l] Big Picture, Outline Plan

[Matthew Silvey]

Ronald,
I believe a lot of this is being discussed right now.  There isn't really a
document yet to describe much of what you are asking about.  Dennis' post
recently might provide some information about technical resources and how
they are being used.  You can read his post at:

http://lists.wikia.com/pipermail/search-l/2008-January/001187.html


Matthew

On 1/9/08, Ronald Ashri <ronald at istos.it> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have been following this list for quite some time and there are some
> interesting ideas being discussed but I seem to miss a big picture vision of
> where Wikia wants to go and how we can help with that (other than writing
> mini-articles that is - which is what the about us page seems to suggest).
>
>
> a) what structure is there to manage the exchange of ideas and to decide
> what gets done and when
> b) what exactly is open source here (can I download some code, and setup a
> website called myversionofwikiasearch.com and set it up just like wikia -
> is the software that runs http://alpha.search.wikia.com open source or
> just the spider software, and some other bits and bobs?)
> c) what is the current algorithm for ranking? I realise that it must be in
> some code somewhere but an outline document saying here is the algorithm or
> (even better) explaining it in English would be fantastic
> d) what is the big picture about user interaction? what exactly can be
> done now from a user to influence (improve) results? what is planned in the
> next 3 months, 6 months, 1 year?
>
>
> I guess Wikia Search has a team of developers. What are they working on?
> How do the ideas discussed here filter through to them.
>
>
> Now it may very well be that all these questions are not even the right
> ones to be asking of this list - perhaps something explaining that would
> help as well!
>
>
> Hope this does not come across as aggressive and I apologise if all this
> is described somewhere - you are allowed to answer with the link pointing me
> in the appropriate direction and an appropriate derogatory adjective and I
> will go off and read up but I am genuinely trying to figure out a point of
> entry and I guess some document saying "How you can get involved" would be
> great (and I would even be happy to write it if we can figure out the
> contents)
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Ron
>
>
>
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