<strong>MediaWiki has been installedThere are many Islamic Search Engines and web sites in the internet, however, they suffer many shortcomings:* They are limited to what they have stored in their database* They are completely blind to other contents in the web in an unstructured form like twitter, Facebook and other web sites.* The researcher will have to know which book(s) contain the information he needs and be able to search for it.* Most if not all of the libraries are either in English or Arabic and few are multilingual* All libraries are textual and can not search media files like videos or audio files.* Even with web sites that provide a functionality to search the entire library, the results are not inter-linked to provide the complete picture. For example, a search result may return a name of a notable person, but the document does not create a link for his name to another page that contains his Biography information.</strong>
Consult The fact that there are many libraries, is an indication of fragmented isolated efforts. Not to mention that the [//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents User's Guide] for information libraries has been built on using the wiki softwareobsolete technologies and therefore requiring a lot of effort and money to build and maintain.
== Getting Not surprising to see good efforts in this field has been done, but failed to be maintained because of lack of resources. Some wonderful web sites were started ==as a single man project, but soon faded away because of lack of interest or other reasons.* [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list]* [//wwwSome projects or libraries contain brilliant ideas like those developed for Higher Education research projects, but they are very much confined to being an isolated effort and intended for a specific purpose and time period, for example, some projects have done a wonderful job using state of the art technology in analyzing the Quran but does not include other sciences like Hadeeth or Fiqh etc.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ]* [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce MediaWiki release mailing list]* [//wwwHodHood Project is a team effort that will build and maintain a platform for all Islamic Sciences, in as many languages as possible or there are authentic relevant material.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Localisation#Translation_resources Localise MediaWiki At the early stage it will form a container for your language]* [//www.mediawikiall written or published books, and eventually grow the project to translate contents.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Combating_spam Learn how to combat spam on your wiki]
