|
|
| Line 4: |
Line 4: |
| There are [[Special:Statistics|15k+ pages]], with an estimated spam ratio between 70% and 97%. | | There are [[Special:Statistics|15k+ pages]], with an estimated spam ratio between 70% and 97%. |
|
| |
|
| This is a list of recommendations started by [[User:Guaka|guaka]] ([[User talk:Guaka|talk]]).
| | [[User:Guaka|guaka]] started a case study at [http://wiki.yt/en/MediaWiki_spam_removal wiki.yt]. |
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
| == Recommendations ==
| |
|
| |
| Some recommendations / ideas for fighting spam on this wiki.
| |
|
| |
| The most urgent ones are in a '''bold''' typeface.
| |
|
| |
|
| |
| === 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
| |
| *** block all new spammers and remove all their contributions retrospectively
| |
| ** remove 200 spam pages per day
| |
|
| |
| === structural ===
| |
| * '''categorize all non-spam [[Special:UncategorizedPages|uncategorized pages]]'''
| |
|
| |
| === technical ===
| |
|
| |
| * '''faster server''' (for faster manual spam removal)
| |
|
| |
| * '''better captcha'''
| |
| ** [http://wiki.yt/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Special%3AVersion&type=signup 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
| |
|
| |
|
| [[Category:Wiki maintenance]] | | [[Category:Wiki maintenance]] |
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.
