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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 70%.
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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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[[Category:Wiki maintenance]]
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* faster server (for faster manual spam removal)
 
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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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* keeping eye on:
 
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** [[Special:ActiveUsers]]
 
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** [[Special:Recentchanges]]
 
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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
 

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.

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