Forum:Automatic wiki creation

Inquisitor Sasha (talk) 22:33, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

We should strongly consider adding functionality to the farm management extension to allow wiki users to create new wikis on their own. To address any issues with wiki spam, we could probably set a log that would strictly keep track of all wikis created by each user and in general. We could probably set up some sort of bot to handle bureaucrat promotion on the wiki for the creator. Inquisitor Sasha (talk) 22:33, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I believe, to the best of my knowledge, that this idea was proposed amongst the stewards at the conception of Orain, but was turned down in favor of the current method in order to allow the Organization to monitor wiki creation and avoid creating "useless" or otherwise "dangerous" wikis (i.e. illegal, promoting illegal activity, etc.). Yes, we could go through and delete those wikis, but it's best if they aren't created in the first place. Good idea, though. If others have a differing opinion, please feel free to share it and possibly some solutions to the problem(s) with automatic wiki creation. -- Joe G. (Talk) 23:44, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I guess that might put a limit on such content. Though, just having an actively monitored wiki creation log would probably solve most issues there could be, if problematic wikis were quickly deleted.  From a legal perspective, I'm sure that it's fine as long as you remove the content as soon as you find out about it.  It's possible that someone might advocate illegal activity on an existing wiki regardless.   The main issue I see would be test wikis of people just testing the service, but they could be quickly deleted.  I think that the ability for people to just jump in an create wikis would be an attraction over other wiki hosts that allow people to create wikis automatically.  We should aim to get people before they get sucked into the hollow promises of Wikia.  They claim to offer so much, but it's really nothing and people will end up regretting their decision to go to Wikia.  Inquisitor Sasha (talk) 01:17, 19 March 2014 (UTC)