Hey Quim,
Thanks for such a detailed response. Sorry for being inactive for these few days, I was undergoing some coursework evaluations.
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
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 talk<http://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/User:Anubhav_iitrhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Anubhav_iitr
page.
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.
I was thinking of creating a Job Queue for big websites like Wikipedia, each edit will go in a queue which will be processed offline and then later roll backed to the original content if it triggers the alarm.
As a next step, please
- Create a subpage for your proposal e.g. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/*
*User:Anubhav_iitr/Bayesan_**spam_filterhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Anubhav_iitr/Bayesan_spam_filter
- File an enhancement request at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.**
org/enter_bug.cgi?product=**MediaWiki%20extensionshttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensionsunder "Extensions requests" explaining your proposal and linking to the related wiki page.
- Reply to this thread sharing the link to the bug report so anybody
interested can watch it.
Here is the link for the bughttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47207, as you said.
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_iitrhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_talk:Anubhav_iitr :)
-- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**User:Qgilhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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