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Problem: there is way too much spam on this wiki.
 
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%.
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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]'''.
  
== Recommendations ==
 
  
Some recommendations / ideas for fighting spam on this wiki:
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[[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
 

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.