CC Public Wiki:Fighting spam: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 00:48, 8 May 2013

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

There are 15,724 pages, with between an estimated spam ratio between 30% and 90%.

Some recommendations / ideas for fighting spam on this wiki:

faster server (for faster manual spam removal)
set up coordinated team
give trusted users sysop rights to help fighting spam (by blocking and deleting)
give more trusted people bureaucrat rights to promote trusted users to sysops
keeping eye on:
- Special:ActiveUsers
- Special:Recentchanges
better captcha?
- pet finder seems to work fairly well
run a bot to clean up existing spam
- based on picking user names
- based on keywords in titles and/or articles

Revision as of 23:36, 7 May 2013 view source Guaka (talk \| contribs) 310 edits →Recommendations ← Older edit		Revision as of 00:48, 8 May 2013 view source Guaka (talk \| contribs) 310 edits No edit summary Newer edit →
Line 2:		Line 2:
	Problem: there is way too much spam on this wiki.		Problem: there is way too much spam on this wiki.

	There are [[Special:Statistics\|15,724 pages]], with between an estimated spam ratio between 30% and 70%.		There are [[Special:Statistics\|15,724 pages]], with between an estimated spam ratio between 30% and 90%.