Crowdsourcing special displays

KevinBatdorf

Wanted to keep up with today's midterm election night in USA. Searching anything election related gave just normal news data rather than the data I was looking for. Would be nice to have some features like this on special days.

Vlad

KevinBatdorf Agreed. It is a matter resources and our entire company is probably currently smaller then just the team doing the 'election pretty display' at Google.

A more scalable solution would be letting users crowdsource the special displays.

Not sure yet how would it work, some kind of collaborative/wiki style data display triggered by certain keywords would be a start.

Is this something you'd like to discuss here?

KevinBatdorf

Vlad Is this something you'd like to discuss here?

That sounds right. I'm not sure how I would be able to contribute but I agree that's a good direction to approach this.

Vlad

I imagine first step would be allowing the users to report/flag the need for existence of such widget.

For example 'election results' query

It is signalled such widget is needed
Kagi team approves and creates the widget
Now an empty widget with some placeholder text appears for anyone searching
They are able to contribute to the widget by editing the content in markdown
This is done in real time and collaborative manner (a-la google docs)
After changes are saved data is displayed with a link to show edit history
To incentivize this, we could award 'credit points' for users contributing that will go towards paying the subscription fee

Browsing6853

DuckDuckGo had such approach before: https://web.archive.org/web/20190628013932/https://duckduckhack.com/

I'm all in for the idea but I don't think such manual and gated approach is the ideal. What DDG did was just maintaining a github repo with all their widgets, which I think it's much better.

This has already be discussed before indirectly at some level:

https://kagifeedback.org/d/215-searching-for-weather-should-display-location-specific-weather-info/
https://kagifeedback.org/d/36-custom-widgetscomputer-plugins
https://kagifeedback.org/d/286-custom-javascript

danbulant

Possibly similar to how Mycroft does it?

Have a file with triggers (they have a simple format of sentences, with () groups, like (hello|hi) everyone will match both hello everyone and hi everyone, and can be combined recursively to shorten templates a lot), and then some execution.

Also, I'd request having more options - instant answer, side widgets (wiki widget), main widgets (embedded in results, like news and images), and special page that can be opened from the previous (like how Google has it for vote results).

I'd love to be able to extend kagi even more.

Browsing6853

Just found about that:

https://docs.you.com/getting-started/Examples/looria

It looks exactly what is described here!!!