I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking this Michael. Reading the documents I've seen, it seemed like (1) to me, but a lot of the assumptions seem to lean towards (3). If it is (1), then that is an entirely reasonable thing for the Foundation to be putting development effort into. The problem is that the statements in the grant documents are quite vague, and given the rest of the shenanigans that the WMF has been involved in lately, people are quite predictably jumping to the least flattering conclusion.
Cheers, Craig On 16 February 2016 at 05:36, Michael Peel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 15 Feb 2016, at 17:10, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hoi, > > The notion that WMF should out google Google is stupid, certainly at that > > kind of money. > > I'm still confused about what kind of 'search engine' is actually being > proposed here. Is it: > 1) Wikimedia specific: index all of Wikimedia's content and make that > easier for users of the sites to find > 2) Wikimedia + selected others: like (1), but also allow some other > like-minded sources into the mix > 3) Google-scale: index everything (duckduckgo-like) > ... or somewhere on the scale between those points? > > A lot of people seem to be assuming (3), others are liking the idea of > (1), but (2) (or maybe (1) leading to (2)) might be closer to the reality? > > Thanks, > Mike > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
