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You remember incorrectly. It was a plan from a past Executive Director that never even started.
by _joe 7y ago
You remember incorrectly. It was a plan from a past Executive Director that never even started.
- elect_engineer 7y agoFull disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer". See https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21700802 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21700802 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C... I do not believe that the above "It was a plan from a past Executive Director that never even started" claim is accurate. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-02-17/Special_report#knowledgeengine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-02-10/Special_report#knowledgeengine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-02-10/In_focus#knowledgeengine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2... Key quotes: "In May 2015, Risker observed that a team called 'Search and Discovery' was 'extraordinarily well-staffed with a disproportionate number of engineers at the same time as other areas seem to be wanting for them'." "We also know at some point it was an ambitious project to create a brand new search engine as an alternative to Google."