[Search-l] Introducing Wikia Evolution

[Jimmy Wales]

We don't really have a bot policy yet, but basically I would think of it 
as being something for the community to decide.  The basic way it should 
work is for someone to propose what their bot will do, discuss it, show 
examples, let people comment on it, modify it, etc., and when there is 
consensus, run it.

Aerik Sylvan wrote:
> Cool.  What is Wikia's policy going to be with regards to automated 
> submissions?  In other words, users can use the ajaxy interface on 
> search.wikia to add to the index, etc., users can use the toolbar to do 
> it also...  suppose someone wanted to have their application do 
> automated (theoretically non-spammy) submissions to the index?  Is this 
> welcomed, frowned on...?  Here an even more concrete example:  I have a 
> social bookmarking/tagging thing.  By definition, users are saying that 
> the tags they use are keywords for the urls they are tagging.  I could, 
> for instance, post those keywords to search.wikia...?

Sounds interesting!

--Jimbo