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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?
• What is Rating Reliability and how does it affect WOT's trust in me?
• What is Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and why should my website have a Privacy Policy?

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.
• WOT for Opera

Documentation

• History behind WOT: the when, why, and how...
• Using the Rating Window for rating websites
• 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.
  • Rating limitations on web pages containing long lists of links (hundreds per page).
  • 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.
• WOT widget Add ratings to your website or blog.

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

• The mass rating tool, available to all Platinum WOT members
• Scorecard search plugin for Internet Explorer 7 / Firefox 2.x and above
• WOT Scorecard IE Accelerator for Internet Explorer 8 and above

Other tools

• Business / Corporation certification
• Online tools
• HTML Codes - Characters and symbols

Internet threats

• Beware of Adware, Ads, Backdoors, Blended Threats, Botnets, Browser Exploits, Fraud, Identity Theft, Keyloggers, Malware, Phishing, Pop-ups, Riskware, Rootkit, Spam and Junk mail, Spyware, Trojan Horses, Viruses, and Worms. Can you think of other threats?
• Learn about what other precautions you can take to enjoy safe surfing on the web!
• The WASC Threat Classification

  is a cooperative effort to clarify and organize the threats to the security of a web site. The members of the Web Application Security Consortium have created this project to develop and promote industry standard terminology for describing these issues. Application developers, security professionals, software vendors, and compliance auditors will have the ability to access a consistent language and definitions for web security related issues.

Using the wiki

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