[Search wiki] Stroboli into main and mini space ?

[Rainer Blome]

Bani wrote:
> I've checked the article (it is Strobili not Stroboli) and it has no
> relationship with what that word means anywhere else on the web (it is
> something related to plants). 

The meanings are actually related, and intentionally so.
In Biology, strobili are ''areas where new structure grows'',
for example in plants or coral.
Oshani wants to apply this idea to knowledge.  His "Strobili" are areas 
where new structure of knowledge grows.  Apparently, to grow this 
structure, a Strobili "application" is supposed to watch which links are 
being followed and somehow make use of this information.
An interesting idea, although the pages need a lot of work.
They are hard to make sense of, in much need of examples, and the reader 
has now way of knowing whether she has correctly understood.
What's more, it would not surprise me if this idea had not already been 
developed elsewhere, under a different name.

> So, looks like this is just a dead project of one person who left a
> long time ago. 

That does not mean that there is no value in it.

> My opinion is that it doesn't really fit as a mini (it
> is huge and doesn't give any information on the real strobili)

I agree that it should not live in the mini space.

> and it shouldn't be in the main namespace either.

Why not?  Oshani's "Strobili" is an idea about how to structure 
knowledge to make it easier to search and navigate.  Thus the pages are 
at least in part about search, which makes them suitable for the main, 
or rather the ''search:'' namespace.

> So my suggestion would be
> that you delete the stuff related to it from the main namespace and

I vote to keep the pages, for now.

> rewrite the mini with a paragraph about that a real strobili is.

Disambiguate.  Link to wp:Strobili and Category:Strobili.  Make it clear 
that Category:Strobili is original research.

Rainer