Hi Anubhav,
On 04/07/2013 06:05 PM, anubhav agarwal wrote:
Hi,
I am Anubhav Agarwal, a B.Tech 4th Year student at IIT Roorkee. I wish to apply for GSoC 2013 and I am thinking about Bayesian Spam Filter as a project for the same. I have drafted the Idea on my talkhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Anubhav_iitrpage.
I have done a first reality check with Chris Steipp, who oversees the area of security and also spam prevention. Your idea is interesting and it seems to be feasible. This is a very good first step!
It would require adding a hook to MediaWiki core, but this could be a small, acceptable change. The rest could be developed as an extension of the ConfirmEdit extension.
It might have a performance penalty in a site like English Wikipedia with plenty of concurrent edits, but for starters it could be potentially useful to the 99% of MediaWiki instances that have a significantly smaller number of daily edits and especially a very small number of editors and tools able / happy to deal with spam.
As a next step, please
1. Create a subpage for your proposal e.g. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Anubhav_iitr/Bayesan_spam_filter
2. File an enhancement request at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions under "Extensions requests" explaining your proposal and linking to the related wiki page.
3. Reply to this thread sharing the link to the bug report so anybody interested can watch it.
I request you to go through this and give your suggestions on it.
Yes, but you will get more feedback if you are diligent answering to the feedback received:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_talk:Anubhav_iitr :)