Thanks for the number: about in line with guestimate.
I agree about the issue on a non-admin reverting a sysop authorised page. That's why I didn't propose that route.
But why does the number make the proposed solution insane? Is it the list maintenance that bothers you? There are plenty of ways of maintaining an adequate list for example DMOZ is a wikipedia partner project and we could take all the links from non-commercial pages of DMOZ as a 95% solution (then they can handle all the arguments). Or you can use a bot to find links currently entered by legit users which have lived for a year without reversion; whatever. Once we have a starting point for a list changes will be much more manageable. In the end the community is entirely up to deciding a process to choose greenlist links; the problem is what's the simplest way to implement it. The divert route seems much simpler because it doesn't clog up existing processes with a big checkdata.
================= Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 1/24/07, Andrew Cates andrew@catesfamily.org.uk wrote:
Therefore, could I put in a request for a "greenlist" feature to allow sysop approved links to be generated without rel="nofollow"?
There are well over 8 million external links in enwiki alone, including well over a half million distinct domains via HTTP.
A greenlist is not a remotely sane solution because of this...
Sane solutions are, however, possible.
I would suggest that any proposed feature interact with whatever version flagging system we end up implementing. I don't believe that will likely be sufficient since the the proposal most likely to be implemented just provides us with a not-vandalized flag... which doesn't do much to indicate that any member of the editing community has actually reviewed the link (and pure time limits are even worse in that regard). Just keep in mind that anything proposed must scale, and it must be robust against editing (special text that only admins can insert is not robust against editing... for example, a non admin couldn't revert page blanking on a page that had special text links).