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Some recommendations / ideas for fighting spam on this wiki:
 
Some recommendations / ideas for fighting spam on this wiki:
 
* faster server (for faster manual spam removal)
 
  
 
=== social ===
 
=== social ===
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=== technical ===
 
=== technical ===
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* faster server (for faster manual spam removal)
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* 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
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* run a bot to clean up existing spam
 
* run a bot to clean up existing spam
 
** based on picking user names
 
** based on picking user names
 
** based on keywords in titles and/or articles
 
** based on keywords in titles and/or articles

Revision as of 00:50, 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:

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
  • set goals
    • e.g. no new spam
    • remove 200 spam pages per day

technical

  • faster server (for faster manual spam removal)
  • better captcha?
  • run a bot to clean up existing spam
    • based on picking user names
    • based on keywords in titles and/or articles