[Search-l] Introducing Wikia Evolution

[Jeremie Miller]

Also very often what you might want to use a bot for, could possibly  
be better served via building a widget, which is starting to get some  
foundation built for it so hopefully there will be something to play  
with on that front soon :)

Jer

On Aug 6, 2008, at 8:47 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:

> 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
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