[Search wiki] Deletion policy, and possible wiki bug

[Dario Borghino]

Hi all,

I'm a new Wikia Search user -- I found out about it just today, and I'm 
thrilled. I saw on the log you admins 'took care' of the pages I tagged 
as to be deleted. However, I'm assuming the deletion policy for mini 
articles is somehow similar to that of Wikipedia, even if there probably 
isn't any yet.

Is there an article describing it in detail, so that I can avoid tagging 
false positives? I suppose not, since the concept of a mini article 
doesn't seem to have been defined yet. In case there isn't any deletion 
policy, should I just tag spam pages and nonsense? What about pages 
named after a fairly common search term, should I blank the page or tag 
it for deletion?

Another problem that I experienced is with multilanguage mini articles. 
See for instance http://re.search.wikia.com/search#linux: personally, 
I'd prefer seeing only the mini article in my own language, or the 
english one if my language isn't available (e.g. via the accept-language 
header or something like that), otherwise articles may just get too long 
and occupy a large portion of the page, making the user experience less 
pleasant.

There is also a technical problem here, in that if I click on a summary 
link (e.g. Deutch), I'm redirected to the Deutsch search page rather 
than the german section of the mini article (at least, that's what 
happens to me using Iceweasel under Debian etch stable).

Are there any plans to implement multiple language mini-wikis? I'm no 
expert, but I have a strong impression that, since it doesn't aim at 
being complete, the number of mini articles is going to grow very 
quickly even for non-english versions. This way we could use (once we 
get them to work) summaries directly for disambigs rather than 
localizations.

regards,
  Dario

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