[Search wiki] External links in mini-articles

[Charitwo (SRA Moliske Sean M)]

Disabling anon editing should be a last resort, I think. Though making
confirm edit captcha for new external links seems like a solution we can
try. Can you add that, Angela?

On Jan 7, 2008 1:38 AM, Allen Stern <allen at centernetworks.com> wrote:

> I agree with that Angela - any external linking would easily create more
> spam. At the same time, this would assume that the search engine itself
> will show the best results first. I noted this in my review:
> http://www.centernetworks.com/wikia-search-goes-live
>
> Keeping spam out of the mini articles will be a factor in success for
> this search engine.
>
> -- Allen
>
> Angela wrote:
> > Is there any need for external links in mini-articles? An easy way to
> > cut the spam would just be to prevent them totally, allowing only
> > internal links for "see-also" and interwiki links to Wikipedia.
> >
> > Angela
> > _______________________________________________
> > Search wiki mailing list
> > http://search.wikia.com/
> > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/searchwiki
> >
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
> Search wiki mailing list
> http://search.wikia.com/
> http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/searchwiki
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.wikia.com/pipermail/searchwiki/attachments/20080107/6969f9a1/attachment.html