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| − | This is a list of recommendations started by [[User:Guaka|guaka]] ([[User talk:Guaka|talk]]).
| + | [[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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| − | The most urgent ones are in a '''bold''' typeface.
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| − | === social ===
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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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| − | * invite people to join through IRC, social media, mailing lists
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| − | * keeping eye on:
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| − | ** [[Special:ActiveUsers]]
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| − | ** [[Special:Recentchanges]]
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| − | * set goals
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| − | ** e.g. no new spam
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| − | ** remove 200 spam pages per day
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| − | === structural ===
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| − | * '''categorize all non-spam [[Special:UncategorizedPages|uncategorized pages]]'''
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| − | === technical ===
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| − | * '''faster server''' (for faster manual spam removal)
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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
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Latest revision as of 09:43, 8 May 2013
