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if i understand it right, whichever Wikipedia articles users have submitted will (usually) be indexed. i don’t know that there’s an API to query the index set,

if i understand it right, whichever Wikipedia articles users have submitted will (usually) be indexed. i don’t know that there’s an API to query the index set, or not. i submitted the Wikipedia article on The Experience Machine an hour ago, so i’m watching to see if that’s approved (it’s not instant). given that the Wikipedia article on PAL is indexed (i see it when i search “wikipedia”), i expect most Wikipedia articles are acceptable and it’s just a matter of which ones people (like you) will have submitted.

colinsane 4y ago
tangential to your question, i think it’s worth pondering what makes (or would make) a per-page moderated/curated search engine like Wiby valuable, though. Wikipedia articles are easy to find. they’re all generally good quality. you don’t really need a new search engine to make Wikipedia more accessible. Personal websites, on the other hand, are a mixed bag. there’s a tremendous amount of worthwhile stuff out there, where one page might explain how to solve a niche technical issue and the adjacent page might just be the author sharing photographs of a recent hike, or their wedding, etc. currently, both of these pages tend to be low-ranked on most search engines. i believe one prospect for Wiby is to bring the former to prominence. it’s definitely not a general-purpose search engine like Google. but try searching “raspberry pi” or “home automation”. on Google you will get pages focused narrowly on products: where to buy rpi’s, a dozen different home automation brand webpages, etc. on Wiby you get blogs documenting things people built related to rpi or home automation. it could be something like a search-based, topic-agnostic Hackaday. it’s not perfect. it only has a few relevant results for each topic. but there are certain specific types of results which are near impossible to find on Google but can be found on Wiby. maybe that can be valuable. maybe it will fade way. i won’t forecast the future, but i am intrigued.

colinsane 4y ago

tangential to your question, i think it’s worth pondering what makes (or would make) a per-page moderated/curated search engine like Wiby valuable, though. Wikipedia articles are easy to find. they’re all generally good quality. you don’t really need a new search engine to make Wikipedia more accessible. Personal websites, on the other hand, are a mixed bag. there’s a tremendous amount of worthwhile stuff out there, where one page might explain how to solve a niche technical issue and the adjacent page might just be the author sharing photographs of a recent hike, or their wedding, etc. currently, both of these pages tend to be low-ranked on most search engines. i believe one prospect for Wiby is to bring the former to prominence. it’s definitely not a general-purpose search engine like Google. but try searching “raspberry pi” or “home automation”. on Google you will get pages focused narrowly on products: where to buy rpi’s, a dozen different home automation brand webpages, etc. on Wiby you get blogs documenting things people built related to rpi or home automation. it could be something like a search-based, topic-agnostic Hackaday. it’s not perfect. it only has a few relevant results for each topic. but there are certain specific types of results which are near impossible to find on Google but can be found on Wiby. maybe that can be valuable. maybe it will fade way. i won’t forecast the future, but i am intrigued.