[Search wiki] Usefulness of Mini Articles

[Jeremie Miller]

There's supposed to be a scheduled job that dumps the list of mini  
article names that are batch loaded into KT, which is checked for  
every query for any matches... not sure if that's working offhand but  
the idea is to make it basically automatically added to anything that  
is edited.

As for promoting the adding of them somehow, my complaint first is  
that we're already pretty overwhelmed in general and need to figure  
out how to organize the huge bag of links and tools that is the UI  
already :/

Jer

On Oct 17, 2008, at 6:05 PM, Mark (Markie) wrote:

> the issue of the widget triggering on every search is one that i  
> have previously raised and was informed that work was still ongoing  
> on some of the wise apps and they would be turned on over the next  
> few weeks after more work, and that the mini articles would indeed  
> be triggered for every search (whether this is just for matches or  
> not im not too sure)
>
> regards
>
> mark
>
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Rainer Blome <rainer.blome at gmx.de>  
> wrote:
> Simone Search wrote:
>  > 2. How usefull is the wiki with its mini articles for the
>  > searchengine?
>
> Mini articles can be a great way to share information about topics
> (queries) which are not adequately covered by existing online  
> resources.
>  That's why I love them.
>
> For a while, mini articles were not accessible directly from the  
> search
> engine.  This severely limited their usefulness.  The plan was to  
> treat
> Mini Articles like other, ranked resources.  With the WISE application
> framework, this has now happened.
>
> There already is a WISE application for Mini Articles (The Application
> Definition Object is in http://svn.swlabs.org/WISE/wise.js (search for
> "miniarticle") and the Application Javascript File is
> http://svn.swlabs.org/WISE/apps/wise_miniarticle.js ).  The app, if
> active, displays the start of the appropriate mini article, if any.
> For example, see
> http://re.search.wikia.com/search.html#wikia , where I manually added
> the Mini Article app.  You may have to scroll a little to see the  
> app's
> result.
>
> By default, the Mini Article app is not triggered for all queries.
> Is this intentional?
>
> This is unfortunate in my opinion.
> Unless a user knows that there is a Mini Article about a query, she
> has little incentive to go through the trouble of manually adding the
> Mini Article app.  Currently it is somewhat onerous to manually add an
> app, because only a small portion of the list is displayed and one  
> needs
> to scroll through it.  What's more, most users probably do not know
> about the MA app at all.
>
> To make effective use of the existing Mini Articles, the Mini Article
> app needs to be triggered for all queries, like Wikipedia and  
> Freebase.
>
> In addition, it would be nice to re-add a "Write a Mini Article"  
> link so
> that it is easy to add new articles.
>
>
>  > 3. If Miniarticle are usefull :: what should I edit?
>
> Whatever you like. If you write and edit articles about
> topics that interest you, you'll have more fun. :-)
>
>  > 4. is it usefull to categorize all the mini articles?
>  > ( I tried to do a lot)
>
> That depends on the individual user.
> Personally, I find categories useful, I would not want to miss them.
> However, I use categories rarely.  For example, in Wikipedia maybe I  
> use
> them once in a month.  I can not remember the last time I used
> categories in the Search wiki.
> So... Useful, yes. Important, no.
>
> Rainer
> _______________________________________________
> Search wiki mailing list
> http://search.wikia.com/
> http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/searchwiki
>