[Search-l] wrong questions

[Mark (Markie)]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:

> Paul Vixie wrote:
> > working with which "us"?  is it wikia's remit to recruit new co-backends,
> > to add flooding features to the backend so that crawlers can bulk-share
> > their findings with other crawlers?  if so, please be as transparent as
> > possible about it, up to and including writing "open letters" to
> prospects
> > which are cc'd to search-l, and doing an RFC-like public review on
> search-l
> > of the protocols and mechanisms that will be used at the backend-backend
> > layer.  this request follows from my observation that everybody is
> excited
> > about search syndication, but the voices we most need to hear belong to
> > people who don't want to be "along for the ride" with wikia as sole
> driver.
>
> Makes sense...
>
> > domain names are brands, and swlabs.org isn't a meaningful one for an
> SVN
> > used by this project.  i suggest moving it to svn.search.wikia.com or
> > svn.search.isc.org or similar, and adding a bug tracker, or installing a
> > sourceforge instance, or similar.  a wiki by itself does not a community
> > make.
>
> That sounds good to me, but I know Jer was interested in swlabs.org as a
> domain to really help with the perception problem you identified about
> Wikia as "sole driver".

afaik most of the content on the swlabs.org site is content that can or is
being partially or wholly developed by the community.  re.search has a very
small amount of community input directly atm, but all the grub clients which
are in the svn are all committed by the community in their entirity.
therefore as i see it the swlabs server is a kinda "community resource" for
people to use as a resource to develop the project, and isnt really much
else, other than a development server.  but hey, i might be getting it
wrong... :-p


>
>
> > you've gotta write a whitepaper to that effect.  not just an e-mail
> message
> > and not a wiki article, but an honest to gods high end marketing hit
> piece
> > which you roll up and brandish at audiences when you speak about wikia
> > search.  the noncredibility of the early claims about "taking on google"
> is
> > the biggest weakness wikia search has got.
>
> And this meme (which comes mostly from the media that loves a David and
> Goliath story) is also probably the biggest strength we have got right
> now.  It's a monster either way. :)
>
>
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