[Search wiki] Forum:Main Namespace

[jer]

>> Has anyone proposed just dedicating a wiki host to the mini articles?
>>
>>         http://mini.search.wikia.com/Article
>
> The only disadvantage is the length. search.wikia.com is just easier
> to link to. I'd prefer to move the stuff about search elsewhere and
> keep search.wikia.com for the mini-articles.

Ahhh, but alas the 99% of the traffic will be coming straight from  
the search result screen, the actual hostname is almost insignificant  
as you can get to it by clicking there quite easily and transparently.

We really need a good general purpose try/share/test anything wiki  
somewhere too, I don't like having to choose between the two to treat  
differently :(

What if we set up a proxy and merge all the hosts together?
	http://search.wikia.com/wiki/* - general purpose / community
	http://search.wikia.com/mini/* - own mini namespace
	http://search.wikia.com/profiles/* - what's currently on alpha.
	http://search.wikia.com/search/ - results

The first two would be separate MW instances?

Even if the mapping together is silly, I'd still opt for having  
another hostname for minis :)


>> And using that same kind of solution for international hosts as well?
>>
>>         http://es.mini.search.wikia.com/...
>>         http://hans.mini.search.wikia.com/...
>
> Eventually, this will happen for some languages, but we don't have
> communities in every language to maintain that. It's also tricky to
> see at the moment how this would tie in with the search results page.
> If you're searching from Germany, do you only get the mini-articles
> from de.search.wikia.com? For many languages, there isn't going to be
> any content except in English.
>

The browser sends the preferred languages, combined with any  
preferences by hostname (if we made a french search results page for  
instance), combined with any future geoip preference, and we have an  
ordered list of all language possibilities for a given request.  We  
return the highest preference and *also* a list of what other  
languages that mini is available in that is easily clickable for the  
user to switch between.

Is there a better suggestion that I missed?  I'm a little behind and  
obviously catching up so there probably is :)

Jer