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So Wikipedia does not have a “favorite pages” feature for signed-in members. With an RSS feed, such that you can share the weird things you turn up without having to individually link them all the time.
And Wikipedia also does not spell-check or suggest alternatives when you misspell a search term.
I am puzzled why these are both the case.
There’s a couple bugzilla entries that are sort of like what you’ve described.
Though I’m not sure how the favorites RSS would work — every time you add a new favorites, an rss entry gets published? Are there other places that do this?
There have been long period(s) where Wikipedia disabled its internal search feature and just passed you off to a Google search with “site:en.wikipedia.org”.
…which is what I’ve pretty much always had setup for my default Wikipedia searching. Google does spell-check.
On the other point, my guess is that Wikipedia’s tools are all focused on helping people edit pages (and track such actions); I doubt anyone has paid much thought to the social aspects of just reading entries. You could just use a normal social bookmarking site and tack on a “wikipedia” tag or something.
That said, I have come across a few things recently that I bookmarked for future reference / sharing:
The Eye of Argon
William McGonagall
I wish more of my interesting internet-savvy friends would use del.icio.us – it works just like you’d want it to and it encompasses the whole internet! But yeah, Wikipedia’s search feature is laughably bad.
Stumbleupon!
Also, doesn’t Youtube have a feed of some sort?
Oh. No, it doesn’t. Well, it should too.
Oh! Also, Google Reader. Like so:
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/07333422211868324590
“And Wikipedia also does not spell-check or suggest alternatives when you misspell a search term.”
This has bothered me for a very long time.
Wikipedia’s search function really is terrible. I just searched “Arrow’s impossibility theorem” and it turned up nothing. A search for “impossibility theorem” turns up the page. . . “Arrow’s impossibility theorem.” Baffling.
I know. This sort of thing happens consistently.