Difference between revisions of "CCWiki:Fighting spam"

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%.

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 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 90%.
+There are [[Special:Statistics|15k+ pages]], with an estimated spam ratio between 70% and 97%.
+[[User:Guaka|guaka]] started  a '''[http://wiki.yt/en/MediaWiki_spam_removal  case study at wiki.yt]'''.
-== Recommendations ==
-Some recommendations / ideas for fighting spam on this wiki:
+[[Category:Wiki maintenance]]
-=== 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
-=== 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