Pine, I think it is a good idea. But there are some spams that are subtle,
so that a better understand of the local language would be necessary - a
business page, like a bar or restaurant, in a neighborhood. I am sure lots
of spam would be detectable even not knowing the local language, but not
all of them.
A little off topic, but today I read a theread on a mailing list where a
professor very commited to open education resources (he uses CC-by) is now
complaining about the bad use of his educational content by spammers:
http://www.dr-chuck.com/csev-blog/2013/04/creative-commons-has-failed-me-an…
Damn. How can we solve that? :(
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:12 PM, ENWP Pine <deyntestiss(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
We have stewards who impose global IP locks and global
account locks
frequently for the purpose of blocking spam. Would it make sense to develop
a tool that globally removes every edit of an editor who has been blocked
by a steward or global admin for spamming, or is that too much power to
give to stewards and global admins? My guess is that this would remove a
lot of spam from smaller wikis that lack the volunteer resources to do a
lot of local spam cleanup, but there are tradeoffs.
--
Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful
than a life spent doing nothing."