CC Public Wiki:Fighting spam: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 00:49, 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:

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
invite people to join through IRC, social media, mailing lists

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

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 * faster server (for faster manual spam removal)
-* set up coordinated team
+=== social ===
+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
+* invite people to join through IRC, social media, mailing lists
 * keeping eye on:
 ** [[Special:ActiveUsers]]
 ** [[Special:Recentchanges]]
+* set goals
+** e.g. no new spam
+** remove 200 spam pages per day
+=== technical ===
 * better captcha?
 ** [http://wiki.yt/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Special%3AVersion&type=signup pet finder] seems to work fairly well