Main Page

About the WOT Wiki

Welcome to the WOT Wiki! We are glad you are here. The WOT Wiki is a cooperative attempt to record information of use to the WOT community. This is a new project, so we need you!

Community

• Wiki tasks and guidelines.
• How does the activity score work?

Customizing the add-on

• Learn to create new search rules for the Firefox add-on or find a user-contributed search rule not included with the add-on.

Documentation

• History behind WOT: the when, why, and how...
• Learn more about the website scorecard. Do you know what the different colors or the various sections mean?
• Didn't the official FAQ have answers to your questions? Add what's missing to the Wiki FAQ.
• Do you hate it when websites hold your data hostage? You can export your ratings and comments.
• Miscellaneous (in progress)
  • Get started with WOT and see the tutorial videos and other information on the Support section.
  • Information about warnings, links to guides, tips, and articles in other languages.
• Trusted Sources are automated ratings with scorecard references in addition to the WOT user ratings.

Development

• Use reputations in your application through the API.
• Download the source code for the WOT add-on. Are you using Chrome 4? Help us test our Chrome add-on.
• Read more about the ongoing experiment for rating shared hosts.

Ideas and feature requests

• Do you have ideas for future improvements? Share them with the rest of us!

Tools

• Other useful online tools.
• Scorecard search plugin for Firefox 2.x and above

Internet threats (in progress)

• Beware of adware, ads, backdoors, browser exploits, fraud, malware, phishing, rootkit, spam and junk mail, spyware, trojan horses, viruses, and worms. Can you think of other threats?

Using the wiki

• Editing (Start here)
• User's Guide
• MediaWiki FAQ