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.
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil