At 06:22 PM 2/4/2004, you wrote:
Guillaume Blanchard wrote:
There are many other criteria that can define "questionable modifications", but this can handle a lot of case we run up against. Those questionable modifications may be displayed in RC (for sysop or for all) with a
different
mark (color, bold, italic or any visible marker). The goal is to give
Could you use SpamAssassin for this? It assignes a probability that a message is a spam, based on how previous messages were categorized. Filtering based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem or rather http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference
Can we dig out cases of vandalism from the "old" database table, and use them as training fodder for SpamAssassin?
SpamAssassin may indeed use Bayesian filtering but is primarily a heuristic (rule based) engine. I believe you could create a heuristic engine that would mark "likely" vandalism on the Wiki, however, just like spam, it only starts an arms race. The spammers know about SpamAssassin, so they do things to get around it. The next version of SpamAssassin deals with these tricks (like word salad, for example). Then the spammers do something more tricky. and so forth.
In the world of the Wiki, there is no economic advantage to vandalism (that I can think of anyway) so perhaps it would not be as serious an escalation as there is in the world of spam.
Eventually, I'm afraid that you will have to REQUIRE logging in with a user name prior to allowing edits on the Wiki. At least that way you can undo all changes by user XXX automatically...
-Kelly
Kelly Anderson kelly@acoin.com writes:
In the world of the Wiki, there is no economic advantage to vandalism (that I can think of anyway) so perhaps it would not be as serious an escalation as there is in the world of spam.
One obvious action is adding URLs pointing to your shop. I'd like to purge out those links without being forced to visit their site first.
Maybe, adding external links should be allowed for logged in users only; all the others can propose URLs to be included on the talk pages.
At 09:55 AM 2/6/2004, you wrote:
Kelly Anderson kelly@acoin.com writes:
In the world of the Wiki, there is no economic advantage to vandalism (that I can think of anyway) so perhaps it would not be as serious an escalation as there is in the world of spam.
One obvious action is adding URLs pointing to your shop. I'd like to purge out those links without being forced to visit their site first.
I hope that when it's relevant that this is ok... since it's done on lots of relevant pages including some I edited.
Maybe, adding external links should be allowed for logged in users only; all the others can propose URLs to be included on the talk pages.
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