<div dir="ltr">And the bots and widgets are all well and good, but I think I'm really asking about an API - whether it's official or unofficial.<br><br>I mean, on the negative side, sooner or later spammers will write automated scripts to try to game the search index, whether you give them a formal API or not. I'm sure just looking at the ajax in the website or the source of the toolbar would yield the information needed to automatically send entries (unless they're protected with captcha - I haven't tried the toolbar yet).<br>
<br>So, what I'm thinking, is you're going to have to fight that battle anyway. There are also good players who would be happy to share their human generated keywords and urls with the index in a semi-automated fashion - thus my social bookmarking example. Every bookmark would make the index smarter, but wikia itself would not have to become a bookmarking application. This is not so much a bot or widget, as an API call.<br>
<br>Best Regards,<br>Aerik<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Jeremie Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeremie@jabber.org">jeremie@jabber.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Also very often what you might want to use a bot for, could possibly<br>
be better served via building a widget, which is starting to get some<br>
foundation built for it so hopefully there will be something to play<br>
with on that front soon :)<br>
<br>
Jer<br>
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On Aug 6, 2008, at 8:47 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:<br>
<br>
> We don't really have a bot policy yet, but basically I would think<br>
> of it<br>
> as being something for the community to decide. The basic way it<br>
> should<br>
> work is for someone to propose what their bot will do, discuss it,<br>
> show<br>
> examples, let people comment on it, modify it, etc., and when there is<br>
> consensus, run it.<br>
><br>
> Aerik Sylvan wrote:<br>
>> Cool. What is Wikia's policy going to be with regards to automated<br>
>> submissions? In other words, users can use the ajaxy interface on<br>
>> search.wikia to add to the index, etc., users can use the toolbar<br>
>> to do<br>
>> it also... suppose someone wanted to have their application do<br>
>> automated (theoretically non-spammy) submissions to the index? Is<br>
>> this<br>
>> welcomed, frowned on...? Here an even more concrete example: I<br>
>> have a<br>
>> social bookmarking/tagging thing. By definition, users are saying<br>
>> that<br>
>> the tags they use are keywords for the urls they are tagging. I<br>
>> could,<br>
>> for instance, post those keywords to search.wikia...?<br>
><br>
> Sounds interesting!<br>
><br>
> --Jimbo<br>
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