ENWP Pine, 04/05/2013 08:36:
Ironholds, would you be interested in investigating how stewards, global sysops, and global rollbackers might be helpful in dealing with the spam problem, especially for small wikis, and what new steps would be useful?
I doubt they need suggestions, they need tools: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Admin_tools_development The question is rather how much they are already helping: botspam, obvious crosswiki vandalism and NOP are mostly handled globally,[1] so local logs can only help assessing what's consuming the local communities time, not what are the true menaces. In worst case, of course, you may even be measuring the "excuses" to block rather than most important problems users were creating (similarly to Al Capone ;) ).
Nemo
[1] See e.g. https://toolserver.org/~jyothis/tools/stewtools/stewaction.php: current stewards have a total 33k blocks (mostly global blocks) and 60k CA actions (mostly account locks). If you consider that NOP blocks are often on ranges of several thousands IPs etc., this can give you an idea.