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

[Gwern Branwen]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:45 PM, K. Peachey <p858snake at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 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

That would be an excellent idea, especially if they could then all be
{{subst}}ed into a single page - just as I can ban every site listed
in the consolidated WP:MIRRO page, so too I can *include* every site
listed on a page. It would probably be superior to the current AfD
template with just some normal Google/Books/News searches.

-- 
gwern