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| Problem: there is way too much spam on this wiki. | | Problem: there is way too much spam on this wiki. |
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| There are [[Special:Statistics|15,724 pages]], with between an estimated spam ratio between 30% and 90%. | | There are [[Special:Statistics|15k+ pages]], with an estimated spam ratio between 70% and 97%. |
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| | [[User:Guaka|guaka]] started a '''[http://wiki.yt/en/MediaWiki_spam_removal case study at wiki.yt]'''. |
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| == Recommendations ==
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| Some recommendations / ideas for fighting spam on this wiki:
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| === social ===
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| set up coordinated team
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| * give trusted users sysop rights to help fighting spam (by blocking and deleting)
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| * give more trusted people bureaucrat rights to promote trusted users to sysops
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| * invite people to join through IRC, social media, mailing lists
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| * keeping eye on:
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| ** [[Special:ActiveUsers]]
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| ** [[Special:Recentchanges]]
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| * set goals
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| ** e.g. no new spam
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| ** remove 200 spam pages per day
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| === technical ===
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| * faster server (for faster manual spam removal)
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| * better captcha?
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| ** [http://wiki.yt/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Special%3AVersion&type=signup pet finder] seems to work fairly well
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| * run a bot to clean up existing spam
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| ** based on picking user names
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| ** based on keywords in titles and/or articles
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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.
