Difference between revisions of "CCWiki:Fighting spam"
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== Recommendations == | == Recommendations == | ||
| − | Some recommendations / ideas for fighting spam on this wiki | + | 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 === | === social === | ||
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=== structural === | === structural === | ||
| − | * categorize all non-spam [[Special:UncategorizedPages|uncategorized pages]] | + | * '''categorize all non-spam [[Special:UncategorizedPages|uncategorized pages]]''' |
=== technical === | === technical === | ||
| − | * faster server (for faster manual spam removal) | + | * '''faster server''' (for faster manual spam removal) |
| − | * better captcha | + | * '''better captcha''' |
** [http://wiki.yt/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Special%3AVersion&type=signup pet finder] seems to work fairly well | ** [http://wiki.yt/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Special%3AVersion&type=signup pet finder] seems to work fairly well | ||
Revision as of 01:02, 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%.
This is a list of recommendations started by guaka (talk).
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:
- set goals
- e.g. no new spam
- remove 200 spam pages per day
structural
- categorize all non-spam uncategorized pages
technical
- faster server (for faster manual spam removal)
- better captcha
- 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
