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.
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Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 1/24/07, Andrew Cates
<andrew(a)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).