The Daily Edit/2007/05/News and notes
Wikia - creating communities
News and notes
- By Leon (full credits), 25 May 2007
[edit] Creator of Jabber is hired by Wikia
Jeremie Miller, creator of Jabber, has been hired by Search Wikia to help create an open-source, community powered search engine.
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and Wikia wants to create a search engine with a wiki concept. He said that search is "currently broken" and with Wikia Search, results will be editable making the service more reliable. For example, in normal engines, results are often filled with spam which the user doesn't want.
Miller has been working on a standard protocol that search-related projects could use as a collaboration tool. Wales expects an "extremely alpha" version of Search Wikia to be available by the end of the year. "So we're quite a ways until we have a consumer search project," he said.
[edit] Shun Fukuzawa joins the Community Team
Shun Fukuzawa (Yukichi), a contributor to the Japanese Wikipedia has joined the Community Team this month. Shun has been involved with the open source communities and so has a lot of experience.
