I dunno why you seem to treat those as two separate issues.
The way i see it, one feeds into the other. Wikipedia and other wikis have a repuration for being time/attention sinks, this because you can follow one article to another to another.
Search don't do that. It may or may not barf up what you are looking for if fed the right terms, not much beyond that.
Maybe what i have in mind is something akin to wikiquote but for topics rather than persons. So that this posting by Adler can be filed under zip, gzip, zlib and whatsnot, and people can find it to go alongside the "encyclopedic" description of either of the technologies.
I don't think they're separate issues, and I totally agree that they feed into each other. I'm just having a hard time figuring out what this HN discussion is about.
The way i see it, one feeds into the other. Wikipedia and other wikis have a repuration for being time/attention sinks, this because you can follow one article to another to another.
Search don't do that. It may or may not barf up what you are looking for if fed the right terms, not much beyond that.
Maybe what i have in mind is something akin to wikiquote but for topics rather than persons. So that this posting by Adler can be filed under zip, gzip, zlib and whatsnot, and people can find it to go alongside the "encyclopedic" description of either of the technologies.