Latest revision as of 17:56, 23 April 2011

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.

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',
       'code.google.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.

www.my-example-website.org: I want to link to my cool new game prototype, Mages of Charinland version 415. Clizard 19:52, 6 December 2010 (GMT)

Rejected: Vapourware. Clizard

https://nec.brgs.org.uk: It is the school 24 hour network connection service, used on the Homework page. My antivirus doesn't seem to trust it, but there are no problems with it. Any other help? Let me know! Thanks BRGSMan ^{talk - contribs} 18:19, 9 December 2010 (GMT)

Even though this is on the brgs.org.uk website, it is using an invalid security certificate that would lead users into thinking their connection is secured when it in fact isn't. On some browsers, the user is rightly prevented from viewing the site. I therefore don't think it should be linked. Clizard 18:44, 9 December 2010 (GMT)

http://code.google.com/p/brgswikitheme/: The BRGS Wiki Google Code Project. Is this required anymore? If so, then can it be added to the whitelist? ¹⁸⁸⁵

Yes

'http://www.mediafire.com/file/5i4hg4vjrt5ik9d/RecentChangesExtension.crx: The BRGS Wiki Recent Changes Google Chrome Extension, as referenced here. As my web hosting spontaneously combusts itself every so often, I don't host it there. If you want to put the file on the BRGS Wiki server, feel free! ¹⁸⁸⁵