Difference between revisions of "CCWiki:Fighting spam"
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* faster server (for faster manual spam removal) | * faster server (for faster manual spam removal) | ||
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| + | === social === | ||
| + | set up coordinated team | ||
* give trusted users sysop rights to help fighting spam (by blocking and deleting) | * 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 | * 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: | * keeping eye on: | ||
** [[Special:ActiveUsers]] | ** [[Special:ActiveUsers]] | ||
** [[Special:Recentchanges]] | ** [[Special:Recentchanges]] | ||
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| + | * set goals | ||
| + | ** e.g. no new spam | ||
| + | ** remove 200 spam pages per day | ||
| + | |||
| + | === technical === | ||
* 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 01:49, 8 May 2013
Problem: there is way too much spam on this wiki.
There are 15,724 pages, with between an estimated spam ratio between 30% and 90%.
Recommendations
Some recommendations / ideas for fighting spam on this wiki:
- faster server (for faster manual spam removal)
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
technical
- 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
