[Search wiki] mini articles again (was Re: [Search-l] Any updates?)

[Jeremie Miller]

> accepted or discarded. One example is the use of the main and mini
> namespaces that was discussed some time ago in the forums. To make it
> actually happen the code would have to be changed to point to a
> different namespace by default and the database would have to be
> updated to change the namespace of a few things. But group (c), who
> has proposed this idea, never reached a final decision, and group (a)
> maybe  wasn't even aware that this was being discussed to give a
> feedback of the possibility of performing that database update without
> corrupting all the data.

This might be a touchy issue, but it's come up in other circles and I  
want to propose an idea/solution here...

All of the new BEWARE stuff is based on a new platform I've coined  
"KT" that is built atop hbase (open source bigtable clone that uses  
hadoop).  KT is working /really/ well for all of the ratings, adds,  
edits, deletes, annotations, suggestions, and so forth for the new  
social interface experiments.

I'd like to re-implement the mini articles using KT.  We'd import all  
the existing ones, and the functionality would be similar in that you  
could edit (in place like the results), there'd be a history, and so  
forth.  These wouldn't be using or related mediawiki though, they'd be  
their own thing and have the same back-end as the rest of the new  
stuff, so edits will show up in the page history and global changes,  
the rss feeds for changes, etc.

I hope it isn't a big deal, as I'd live to unify all the interactive  
elements onto one platform, and we'll also have the ability to easily  
customize features/functions as needed for mini articles.

Whadya all think?

Jer