AnCap Wiki search plugin for Firefox
Don’t get me wrong. I love Wikipedia. It’s just that some material that would be good to have available might not necessarily fit well with Wikipedia’s neutral point of view policy.
So, I’ve decided that when citing background material specific to Market Anarchism / Anarcho-capitalism, I ought to perhaps reference Bill St. Clair’s AnCap Wiki or, perhaps, LibertyWiki — instead of Wikipedia.
The thing is, they could both do with a lot more in the way of contributed material. That got me started thinking about how to better incorporate them into the blogging “workflow”. I wondered if more convenient search might encourage anarchist bloggers to first check for material that might be there — so they can either cite it or start a new stub article if it’s not.
Well, more convenient search isn’t to hard to arrange. I wrote a little Firefox search plugin for Bill St. Clair’s AnCap Wiki as a test. I’ll probably get around to doing the same for LibertyWiki if this proves popular.
Now do me a favor and try it out. Just download it, unpack the zip file and follow the instructions in the “readme.txt” file to install.
Then let me know what you think.
Update: Before I forget, just let me mention that although I’ve only tested this on Firefox 1.0.4, it’s also likely to work on recent versions of the Mozilla and Netscape (7.1+) web browsers. Let me know.
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I like the idea and the plugin works (I downloaded it and tried it out).
The only searches I did that came up with results though were for “free market” and “libertarian”. The wiki clearly needs more work in terms of substance. The combination of promotion (I didn’t know this wiki existed ’til reading this post) and things such as your plugin should help boost the use and future addition of materials.
Hey, I tried to download the link and it’s dead! Could you repost it? Thanks a lot!
putrimalu: Sorry about that. You should find it here now.