Indeed. The script eliminated some tens of thousands of spam pages among
only ~400 actual content pages. It was not perfect (there were still a few
pages that had spam on them), but it definitely worked amazingly and did
not have any false positives that I am aware of.
*--*
*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
Major in Computer Science
| tylerromeo(a)gmail.com
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Yury Katkov <katkov.juriy(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think that it's possible to make the tool more
generic. Can you put
the scripts on a repository? I'm giving a talk of fighting spam on
Semantic MediaWiki conference and would be glad to include your bot as
an example of solution of this common problem.
-----
Yury Katkov
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 5:42 PM, John <phoenixoverride(a)gmail.com> wrote:
His wiki is clean, Ive found that the scripts
require tweaking for each
wiki
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Yury Katkov <katkov.juriy(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Tyler, how are the results? John, can you
upload it on some
> repository? Google code, github?
>
> P.S. Sorry for that super-late response, I appreciate your effort to
help!
> -----
> Yury Katkov
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Tyler Romeo <tylerromeo(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>> I do!
http://wiki.sittv.com has been
building up spam for a number of
>> months (or longer).
>>
>> *--*
>> *Tyler Romeo*
>> Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
>> Major in Computer Science
>>
www.whizkidztech.com | tylerromeo(a)gmail.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:52 PM, John <phoenixoverride(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>>> Ive got a script but would like to test it before I make it public. If
>>> someone has a site with spam and would let me test it, it would be
>>> appreciated
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Derric Atzrott
>>> <datzrott(a)alizeepathology.com> wrote:
>>> >>Its rather easy to write in pywiki I just need some information from
>>> >>you about your wiki. (IE are all edits after X date bad, we only
have
>>> >>Y valid users and here are
their names) exc stuff like that allows
me
>>> >>to tailor the script to your
needs.
>>> >>
>>> >>Can I get a link to your site? I would love to take a look and write
>>> >>you that script, (I always love a challenge)
>>> >
>>> > If you make your script have some sort of configuration variables or
>>> something
>>> > along those lines for these different things, then you could
release it
>>> and
>>> > many people could be helped by it.
>>> >
>>> > If you do decide to release it. I would cross post to the mailing
list
>>> for
>>> > Mediawiki administrators as well. I'm sure someone on there could
use
>>> it.
>>> >
>>> > Thank you,
>>> > Derric Atzrott
>>> >
>>> >
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