On 11/13/2013 08:49 AM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
On 11/13/2013 05:44 AM, Nathan Larson wrote:
TL;DR: How can we collaboratively put together a list of non-spammy sites that wikis may want to add to their interwiki tables for whitelisting purposes; and how can we arrange for the list to be efficiently distributed and imported?
I like the idea. Unless I'm mistaken, it seems like most of this idea could be implemented and improved on as an extension.
Alternatively, we could work with WikiApiary to tag spammy wikis that his bot finds.
Also, since we're talking about spam and MediaWiki, another good site to check out would be http://spamwiki.org/mediawiki/.
With my hat of third party wiki admin I personally agree with all this.
Another possibility further down in the roadmap:
Imagine a World in which you could transclude in your wiki content from a subset of this interwiki table of wikis, based on license compatibility and whatever other filters. To avoid performance problems, the check with the sources could be done by a cron periodically, etc.
The most interesting part of this proposal is to start an interwiki table of friendly and compatible wikis willing to ease the task of linking and sharing content among them. The attributes of the table and a decentralized system to curate and maintain the data could open many possibilities of collaboration between MediaWiki sites.