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[News] Wikia Search Engine Adds APIs

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Open-source Wikia Search adds tool to customize results

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| Wikia Search, an open-source search tool launched early this year by 
| Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, today opened its platform with a new 
| application programming interface (API) that allows individuals or business 
| to create interactive search results.   
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| The Wikia Intelligent Search Extension (WISE) platform, announced Wednesday, 
| provides APIs that let third parties provide enhanced search results called 
| WISEApps for specific keywords.   
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1055914427&rid=-50


Recent:

Wikia Rolls Out New Features for Open Source Search Project

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| Wikia Search project puts results more firmly in the hands of real people, 
| unveils a slew of new features that let users edit, comment on and influence 
| search results.  
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http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2008/6/prweb993724.htm


Wikia: Open Search, Open Source

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| You may not have heard of Wikia Search before. A relatively new project from 
| the Wikipedia folks, they've entered the search-engine fray with an attitude 
| that is just about as open as it is possible to be. Not only is their 
| underlying software open source (under BSD licenses), but the very search 
| results themselves are as open to editing as Wikipedia pages.    
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http://ostatic.com/163879-blog/wikia-open-search-open-source#rss


Wikia Search Invites Users to Stir the Pot

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| Wikia has a different idea of how a search engine should operate: Humans 
| should be involved. Toward that end, it has retooled its fledgling open 
| source Wikia Search tool to allow users to collaborate on refining results.  
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/63257.html


Wikipedia, Wikia and the Future of Free Culture

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| The Wikipedia’s license allows you the:
| Freedom to copy
| Freedom to modify
| Freedom to redistribute
| Freedom to redistribute modified versions
| 
| He goes on to further refine his term the sum of all human knowledge. He 
| describes Wikipedia as an encyclopedia, not a data dump. This is a Global 
| Movement to gather content in every single language.  
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http://johntynan.com/archives/114


Niche social networks welcome: Wikia open sources social tools

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| Community wiki building site Wikia, has announced they are allowing their 
| social networking platform to become open source. This will allow anyone to 
| easily create a social community complete with profiles, avatars, friending, 
| etc… within their MediaWiki-based wiki sites.   
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http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/02/28/niche-social-networks-welcome-wikia-open-sources-social-tools


Related:

Wikia's Search Philosophy: It Takes a Village to Challenge a Giant

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| "What you see here is our first alpha release," says a greeting on the Wikia 
| Search site. "We are aware that the quality of the search results is low. Of 
| course, before we start, we have no user feedback data. So the results are 
| pretty bad. But we expect them to improve rapidly in coming weeks, so please 
| bookmark the site and return often."    
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/61080.html


Wikia search engine to go live on Monday

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| Search Wikia, the widely awaited search engine from Wikipedia founder Jimmy 
| Wales, is slated to make its official debut on Monday, with the bet that an 
| open-source, community-driven effort can disrupt and reshape this 
| Google-dominated market.   
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http://www.itworld.com/AppDev/1634/search-wikia-goes-live-080107/


Wikia Search Project to Launch Jan. 7, Wales says

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| Wales has started to invite a handful of people to test an early version of 
| the search platform, which will be publicly launched on Jan. 7, he wrote in 
| anemailto the Wikia mailing list Monday.   
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/24/AR2007122401567.html


Wikipedia like search engine to use Apache Lucene - Nutch 

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| The search engine, code-named Wikiasari, would combine open source
| technology and human intervention to deliver more relevant results
| than the algorithm-based systems used today, Wales said Tuesday.
| "Human intelligence is still the best thing we have, so let's let
| humans do what they do best, and computers do what they do best."
| 
| Wales says that the reason for Wikiasari is that search as we know
| it is broken: "It is broken for the same reason that proprietary
| software is always broken: lack of freedom, lack of community,
| lack of accountability, lack of transparency."
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http://www.indicthreads.com/news/1062/wikipedia_search_engine_apache_lucene_nutch.html


Wikipedia founder hunts for gold

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| Wales also puts his faith in the open-source model. He cites Linux
| reseller Red Hat (Charts), a for-profit company built on top of a
| free, open-source software foundation. Many doubted Red Hat could
| build a profitable business around something as defiantly
| not-for-profit as Linux, but the Raleigh, N.C., company proved
| them wrong. Third-quarter revenue for Red Hat was $105.8
| million in 2006, up 45 percent from the previous year.
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http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/03/01/8401010/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote
http://tinyurl.com/yrxqrn
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