Well, for the past month I've been cleaning up garbage and fighting spambots on small wikis. The problem was that as soon as you deleted a page, a bot would recreate next day.
Therefore, I've created "nospam" pages on many wikis, listing the most created pages, and locking them agasint recreation.
Here are samples: http://wo.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Nospam http://vo.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Nospam http://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uiquipedia:Nospam
Some wikis already havesuch system, but they're few, so this is new for most wikis.
I regularly check small wikis and update them. However, many sysops on small wikis didn't know about cascade protections and that locking system, so local sysops aren't updating them adding new garbage pages, as they don't know how they work.
So, I've decided to add a small line with instructions, as you can see in the last 2 examples. I'd like to ask translators help me with translations of that small line into other languages, so people get aware what they have to do to mantain them and bot spam problem can be kept at bay.
Thus, whoever has 30 seconds to spare, please add a new line into
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Drini/nospam
so next time I travel wikis updating the content, transalted instructions get added.
Therefore, I've created "nospam" pages on many wikis, listing the most created pages, and locking them agasint recreation.
Have you proposed to the devs to implement this list in the software so that it can be easier pass to any project/languages?
What I am thinking about is something like http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist (all project-wise) or something single project wise like http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist
The page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Anti-vandalism_ideas and the Wikitech-l mailing list seem good place where to discuss this possibility.
AnyFile
On 10/14/07, Any File anysomefile@gmail.com wrote:
Therefore, I've created "nospam" pages on many wikis, listing the most created pages, and locking them agasint recreation.
Have you proposed to the devs to implement this list in the software so that it can be easier pass to any project/languages?
What I am thinking about is something like http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist (all project-wise) or something single project wise like http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist
All project already have local versions of the spam blacklist that blocks additions of urls but that doens't stop the index.php pages being created with garbage
a bug was submited to wikizilla requesting a locking page for all wikis, but the developers marked it WONTFIX, which means, they're not implementing it, threfore, I'll continue my manual system
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11646 for anyone who was interested in seeing the bug itself. ;-)
On 10/14/07, Pedro Sanchez pdsanchez@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/14/07, Any File anysomefile@gmail.com wrote:
Therefore, I've created "nospam" pages on many wikis, listing the most created pages, and locking them agasint recreation.
Have you proposed to the devs to implement this list in the software so that it can be easier pass to any project/languages?
What I am thinking about is something like http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist (all project-wise) or something single project wise like http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist
All project already have local versions of the spam blacklist that blocks additions of urls but that doens't stop the index.php pages being created with garbage
a bug was submited to wikizilla requesting a locking page for all wikis, but the developers marked it WONTFIX, which means, they're not implementing it, threfore, I'll continue my manual system
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