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One of the bigger problems facing a public wiki is spam.  We've used only a few techniques to prevent SPAM in this public wiki, but they've worked well for us.
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One of the bigger problems facing a public wiki is spam.  There are a couple of effective ways at preventing SPAM, and these techniques have worked well for us.
  
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Before preventing SPAM, you can [[mw:Manual:Preventing_access|prevent access]], and that's the approach that we've employed so far.  Using [[mw:Manual:$wgGroupPermissions]] we've disabled all privileges by default, and then allow read-only access to the wiki.  We did use the [[mw:Extension:ConfirmAccount]] extension, but we've even turned that off and simply request users to contact a Sys Admin for an account -- making the process manual and personal.  Additionally, we
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# The [http://bad-behavior.ioerror.us/ BadBehavior] extension.
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# Use the [http://bad-behavior.ioerror.us/ BadBehavior] extension.
 
 
# [[mw:Help:Protecting and unprotecting pages|Protect the MainPage from editing]]
 
# [[mw:Help:Protecting and unprotecting pages|Protect the MainPage from editing]]
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There are many more techniques that can be implemented.  There are a few extensions bundled with a download version of MediaWiki; described in the [[mw:Manual:Combating_spam]]. And you can see the extensions used on the MediaWiki website itself [[mw:Special:Version|MediaWiki.org]] such as
 
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* [[mw:Extension:AbuseFilter]]
 
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* [[mw:Extension:ConfirmEdit]]
 
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* [[mw:Extension:ConfirmEdit#FancyCaptcha]]
 
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* [[mw:Extension:AntiSpoof]]
 
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* [[mw:Extension:SpamBlacklist]] (and the blacklist used for wikimedia.org https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist)
 
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== Research ==
 
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[[File:Wikisym13-cluebot.pdf|550px|thumb|A paper on how Wikipedia combats spam, focusing on one particular bot: '''ClueBot NG'''.]]
 
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As of July 2017, the "Revision Scoring as a Service" research initiative has become a full-fledged team at WMF. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Scoring_Platform_team
 
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{{@todo}} I should implement this service, or at least take a closer look at the code and what they're doing.  See the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-_CVzGOYUM Tech Talk] and more info [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/11/30/artificial-intelligence-x-ray-specs/ on the wikimedia blog]
 
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Revision as of 01:20, 12 January 2016

One of the bigger problems facing a public wiki is spam. There are a couple of effective ways at preventing SPAM, and these techniques have worked well for us.

  1. The BadBehavior extension.
  2. Protect the MainPage from editing

unsolicited bulk email

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