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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.

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.

# ~~The~~ [http://bad-behavior.ioerror.us/ BadBehavior] extension.

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

# Use the [http://bad-behavior.ioerror.us/ BadBehavior] extension.

# [[mw:Help:Protecting and unprotecting pages|Protect the MainPage from editing]]

# Modify / set [[mw:Manual:$wgSpamRegex|wgSpamRegex]] to prevent content that is obvious spam.

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

* [[mw:Extension:AbuseFilter]]

* [[mw:Extension:ConfirmEdit]]

* [[mw:Extension:ConfirmEdit#FancyCaptcha]]

* [[mw:Extension:AntiSpoof]]

* [[mw:Extension:SpamBlacklist]] (and the blacklist used for wikimedia.org https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist)

== Research ==

[[File:Wikisym13-cluebot.pdf|550px|thumb|A paper on how Wikipedia combats spam, focusing on one particular bot: '''ClueBot NG'''.]]

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

{{@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]

[[Category:Wiki]]

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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.
+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.
-# The [http://bad-behavior.ioerror.us/ BadBehavior] extension.
+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:$wgGroupPermissions]] we've disabled all privileges by default, and then allow read-only access to the wiki.  We did use the [[mw:Extension:ConfirmAccount]] extension, but we've even turned that off and simply request users to contact a Sys Admin for an account -- making the process manual and personal.  Additionally, we
+# Use the [http://bad-behavior.ioerror.us/ BadBehavior] extension.
 # [[mw:Help:Protecting and unprotecting pages|Protect the MainPage from editing]]
+# Modify / set [[mw:Manual:$wgSpamRegex|wgSpamRegex]] to prevent content that is obvious spam.
+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
+* [[mw:Extension:AbuseFilter]]
+* [[mw:Extension:ConfirmEdit]]
+* [[mw:Extension:ConfirmEdit#FancyCaptcha]]
+* [[mw:Extension:AntiSpoof]]
+* [[mw:Extension:SpamBlacklist]] (and the blacklist used for wikimedia.org https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist)
+== Research ==
+[[File:Wikisym13-cluebot.pdf|550px|thumb|A paper on how Wikipedia combats spam, focusing on one particular bot: '''ClueBot NG'''.]]
+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
+{{@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]
+[[Category:Wiki]]
+[[Category:MediaWiki]]
+[[Category:Security]]