Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-18095-20151007212617/@comment-24473195-20151008193024

That's a very expensive query, considering the thousands of wikis. Although it wouldn't be bad to run it periodically. It seems that they want to have a curated library of scripts, and if they do that  it will be easy to create an interface to opt-in to any script. It would also be possible to easily retrieve the number of wikis that are opted in, much like they do with the optional features that admins can activate.

This could also be done by any user with a bot, although I'm not sure if there is a public listing of all wikias that exist.

As far as trust goes, for javascript I do agree that people who don't know how to design software should generally mistrust all javascript. But the same doesn't apply to lua modules. It is very hard breach a wiki's security using modules. Also, although wikia staff doesn't actively monitor it, they have admin-protected highly used scripts.

Anyway, if wikia implements a wikia commons, they'll still need to find a way to sort all the uploaded content, maybe by automatically tagging file based on its topic and its vertical (e.g. gaming, books, movies, etc). But somebody would still have to manage the repository or it would become a mess.