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Help Build the Worlds Best Human Edited Search Engine

There are a lot of things that need to be done to build the worlds best human edited search engines ...

Index Everything (Or Just-About Everything)

Index every company, club, church and organization, every product, every school, college and university, every movie, every CD, every book, every drug, every country, city, town and suburb, every historical event, every notable person, every flight from every city, every flight to every city, every bus and train timetable, every significant sports event, every concert, every law from every country, every scientific paper, every patent, every gene from the human genome project and everything else you can think of. Please don't however index inappropriate content.

Create Simple One Page Listings

Index something that isn't already on the web, by creating a simple one page article with the pertinent facts.

Index Web Sites

Index your own web sites (using a neutral point of view of course). Go ahead and index other peoples web sites too. Index all the topics that you are interested in - just for fun.

Learn How to Use Query Strings

Use query strings to make matches for search phrases specific but still flexible. Rank the search results from the most relevant to the least relevant (using a neutral point of view or collaboration where there are many opinions).

Build Disambiguation Pages

Build helpful disambiguation pages so that users can start with something that has many meanings but still get what they are looking for.

Get the Regional Searches Going

Let users do a How to Do a Regional Search by specifying regions for articles (where relevant).

Make Useful Menus

Build useful menus so that users can narrow down their search or just explore that area.

Be a Builder, Bouncer or Banker

Be a builder (to create quality search results).
Be a bouncer (to deal with the disruptive editors).
Be a banker (to donate to Isawiki and help pay our costs).

Get Yourself a Star Rating

Create a log-in and work towards getting yourself a star rating. All users are given a star rating from zero to five stars. The first star is quite easy to get. Subsequent star ratings are progressively harder to get. About 0.01% of articles are protected, and can only be edited by users with the appropriate star rating.

Award Medals to Articles that Deserve Them

Award medals when search results deserve to be given a medal. Award a gold medal when the search results are virtually the best (we say virtually because opinions will vary). Award silver and bronze medals when the search results are better than conventional search, but are still not the best.

Be Bold

Be bold and make additions or changes. They don't have to be perfect, they just have to be an improvement. Any improvement is better than no improvement.

Help Build Mankind's Greatest Public Resource

And do this to help all of mankind by building the worlds best search engine. As a public resource, Isawiki already has over eight million records.