[Search wiki] Forum:Main Namespace

[Jimmy Wales]

I tend to side with Angela in this little mini-debate about 
mini-articles. :)  While the mini-articles should be thought of as being 
primarily a part of a broader search-result page, they probably can and 
will be linked to by others, and that's almost certainly ok.

jer wrote:
>> If the mini-articles contain quality information, people will link to
>> them from elsewhere. I think these pages have the potential to be
>> useful in many more contexts than just Wikia Search.
> 
> That raises an interesting question, should they even be accessible  
> outside of the search result screen?  What if you can only view a  
> mini-article in it's native environment, in a search result?
> 
> We're all still learning exactly what they are of course, so my $0.02  
> is that their very definition is being part of a search result and  
> any other uses may be diluting their value as that.
> 
>> The mini-article on Visvo is the 3rd hit in... that other search
>> engine and I expect a lot of people will come across mini-articles
>> that way. http://www.google.com/search?q=Visvo
> 
> Even still, http://mini.search.wikia.com vs. http://search.wikia.com  
> seems pretty insignificant a difference there?
> 
> Jer
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