On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 6:44 AM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Niabot has just come up with what I think is a great idea for addressing > the search problem you mention in your postscript. He's proposed a > clustered search function. (Anybody remember Vivísimo?) > > This could not just solve the problem of NSFW media popping up unexpectedly > in media searches in Wikipedias and Commons. It would generally make > Commons' search function more user-friendly, by grouping search results > according to categories. So adult media would no longer pop up in the > middle of unrelated searches, monarch butterflies would be separated from > other types of monarch, etc. The beauty of clustering search engines is that they are not prejudicial. And fundamentally improve functionality of the search. Enable to find what you personally *want* to find, rather than merely making it easier to exclude what someone wants to make it easier for you to not find you don't want to find. And it is done by the search engine software (at least in theory), not people who are not the person browsing. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
