Revision as of 19:10, 9 December 2010

Intro

Not wanting our readers to fall into any terrible pitfalls of malware or other, we have created a URL whitelist. Any address at that exact hostname is OK (see example). Clearly for some of these sites, we are delegating responsibility to ensure that the content is clean.

Example: I link to wikipedia.org/wiki/Something, not allowed. I link to www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something, allowed. Reason: wikipedia.org isn't on the list, whereas www.wikipedia.org is.

Criteria

To be on the list, a website must:

• Be relevant to an article on the wiki.
• Be suitable for our target audience.
• Not be harmful or encourage harm to the visitor or their computer.
• Not be offensive, illegal or immoral.
• If it primarily displays user-submitted or automated content, the website is expected to be moderated to a reasonable degree.
• Not be a proxy or link forwarding site (e.g. Google, bit.ly) unless restricted to a fixed subdomain.

A website may not be approved for any other good and given reason, but it is anticipated most relevant sites will be accepted.

Currently Allowed External Links

       'www.aldergrange.com',
       'mrsweir.atspace.com',
       'brgswiki.org',
       'stats.brgswiki.org',
       'clipse.hopto.org',
       'creativecommons.org',
       'www.brgswiki.org',
       'www.brgs.org.uk',
       'www.facebook.com',
       'www.mediawiki.org',
       'www.physicsgames.net',
       'uncyclopedia.org',
       'android.wiki.com',
       'meta.wikimedia.org',
       'en.wikipedia.org',
       'www.wikipedia.org',
       'www.youtube.com'

Requests

Please add your requests here. If they are approved (by an admin), they will be moved up to the above list by Clizard.