[WikiEN-l] Custom Google search engines for finding RSs for subject areas

[K. Peachey]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...snip...
> I started with all the links listed in
> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Anime_and_manga/Online_reliable_sources
> and then began running searches on random topics and pruning based on
> that - chucking sites into the blacklist sinbin, or finding good sites
> omitted from the list and adding them to the whitelist. At last count,
> I had 200 sites on the nice list and 311 on the naughty list (but this
> counts things like the Mirrors page as a single link, though they ban
> dozens or hundreds of sites).
> ...snip...
Perhaps we should encourage more WikiProjects to create lists like the
one displayed then add them into a category and someone could work on
a custom search that suitable to use across the project that is
continuously updated with more allow/black lists.

-Peachey