<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Jimmy Wales <<a href="mailto:jwales@wikia.com">jwales@wikia.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Paul Vixie wrote:<br>
> working with which "us"? is it wikia's remit to recruit new co-backends,<br>
> to add flooding features to the backend so that crawlers can bulk-share<br>
> their findings with other crawlers? if so, please be as transparent as<br>
> possible about it, up to and including writing "open letters" to prospects<br>
> which are cc'd to search-l, and doing an RFC-like public review on search-l<br>
> of the protocols and mechanisms that will be used at the backend-backend<br>
> layer. this request follows from my observation that everybody is excited<br>
> about search syndication, but the voices we most need to hear belong to<br>
> people who don't want to be "along for the ride" with wikia as sole driver.<br>
<br>
</div>Makes sense...<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> domain names are brands, and <a href="http://swlabs.org" target="_blank">swlabs.org</a> isn't a meaningful one for an SVN<br>
> used by this project. i suggest moving it to <a href="http://svn.search.wikia.com" target="_blank">svn.search.wikia.com</a> or<br>
> <a href="http://svn.search.isc.org" target="_blank">svn.search.isc.org</a> or similar, and adding a bug tracker, or installing a<br>
> sourceforge instance, or similar. a wiki by itself does not a community<br>
> make.<br>
<br>
</div>That sounds good to me, but I know Jer was interested in <a href="http://swlabs.org" target="_blank">swlabs.org</a> as a<br>
domain to really help with the perception problem you identified about<br>
Wikia as "sole driver".</blockquote><div>afaik most of the content on the <a href="http://swlabs.org">swlabs.org</a> 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<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> you've gotta write a whitepaper to that effect. not just an e-mail message<br>
> and not a wiki article, but an honest to gods high end marketing hit piece<br>
> which you roll up and brandish at audiences when you speak about wikia<br>
> search. the noncredibility of the early claims about "taking on google" is<br>
> the biggest weakness wikia search has got.<br>
<br>
</div>And this meme (which comes mostly from the media that loves a David and<br>
Goliath story) is also probably the biggest strength we have got right<br>
now. It's a monster either way. :)<br>
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