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Some recommendations / ideas for fighting spam on this wiki:
Problem: there is way too much spam on this wiki.


* faster server (for faster manual spam removal)
There are [[Special:Statistics|15k+ pages]], with an estimated spam ratio between 70% and 97%.
* keeping eye on:
 
** [[Special:ActiveUsers]]
[[User:Guaka|guaka]] started  a '''[http://wiki.yt/en/MediaWiki_spam_removal  case study at wiki.yt]'''.
** [[Special:Recentchanges]]
 
* better captcha?
 
** [http://wiki.yt/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Special%3AVersion&type=signup pet finder] seems to work fairly well
[[Category:Wiki maintenance]]

Latest revision as of 09:43, 8 May 2013

Problem: there is way too much spam on this wiki.

There are 15k+ pages, with an estimated spam ratio between 70% and 97%.

guaka started a case study at wiki.yt.

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