CC Public Wiki:Fighting spam

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

There are 15,724 pages, with between an estimated spam ratio between 30% and 70%.

Recommendations

Some recommendations / ideas for fighting spam on this wiki:

• faster server (for faster manual spam removal)
• keeping eye on:
  • Special:ActiveUsers
  • Special:Recentchanges
• better captcha?
  • pet finder seems to work fairly well
• run a bot to clean up existing spam