Wales, however, acknowledged that Search Wikia is “pretty out there in terms of openness” but is confident that, far from leading to chaos, the broad participation of users will boost ...

Since the alpha release, 20,000 registered users have made nearly 60,000 edits to search results and written almost 25,000 mini-articles to be added to Wikia Search, the company said.

Wikia Search, the open-source search engine that is the brainchild of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, will begin letting anyone participate in building its index by adding, deleting, and rating Web ...