[Wikia-l] Does Wikia search suggest a 2-edit-screen future? Might fix other stuff.

[Dan Kindsvater]

Quoting from search.wikia.com:

General guidelines for the social process
To succeed by attracting enough users and by generating meaningful results, 
any socially-driven process must be based on the following principles:
Competency of participants
A common and clear language of possibilities
Diversity of choice ...

Those goals seem to suggest that not just anyone will want to, or will be 
competent to, assist in pointing search terms towards specific Wikipedia 
text.  That is, someone working on search.wikia.com might see a Wikipedia 
page with "tags" strewn through it that most users don't see.  I don't know 
if that's true, I don't see information about this in a quick search of 
wikia-l or search.wikia.com.  If it's true that WP pages will be viewable 
with more information by those in-the-loop, it might help out with another 
problem.  There's a current push to insist that pages follow WP:MOS 
guidelines on "prettifying" markup...no-break spaces, mdashes, etc. where 
appropriate, but this would mean markup that newbies don't understand on 
every other line, in some articles.  If there's going to be a "higher 
content" screen anyway, it might be great to push all "prettifying" markup 
into that screen, to keep the main edit screen cleaner.  (There was some 
discussion of this on the recent thread Wikia-l] Techs, I'd like a quick 
opinion on whether certain pre-processing whenediting is likely.

Dan, Dank55, #wikia, #wikia-de, #wikiversity