Yes, there are some options: (semi)protections, blocks, spam black lists, flaggedrevs, abuse filter and some more. All them are well known MediaWiki features and extensions.
Thanks for your interest. 2012/10/23 ENWP Pine <[email protected]> > > I agree that this sounds like an interesting experiment. I hope that you > get good faith editors. I worry that you’ll get COI editors playing with > the search rankings. Do you have a way in mind to deal with that issue? > > Pine > > *From:* emijrp <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Monday, 22 October, 2012 08:29 > *To:* Research into Wikimedia content and > communities<[email protected]> > *Subject:* [Wiki-research-l] A wiki search engine > > Hi all; > > I'm starting a new project, a wiki search engine. It uses MediaWiki, > Semantic MediaWiki and other minor extensions, and some tricky templates > and bots. > > I remember Wikia Search and how it failed. It had the mini-article thingy > for the introduction, and then a lot of links compiled by a crawler. Also > something similar to a social network. > > My project idea (which still needs a cool name) is different. Althought it > uses an introduction and images copied from Wikipedia, and some links from > the "External links" sections, it is only a start. The purpose is that > community adds, removes and orders the results for each term, and creates > redirects for similar terms to avoid duplicates. > > Why this? I think that Google PageRank isn't enough. It is frequently > abused by farmlinks, SEOs and other people trying to put their websites > above. > > Search "Shakira" in Google for example. You see 1) Official site, 2) > Wikipedia 3) Twitter 4) Facebook, then some videos, some news, some images, > Myspace. It wastes 3 or more results in obvious nice sites (WP, TW, FB). > The wiki search engine puts these sites in the top, and an introduction and > related terms, leaving all the space below to not so obvious but > interesting websites. Also, if you search for "semantic queries" like > "right-wing newspapers" in Google, you won't find real newspapers but > "people and sites discussing about ring-wing newspapers". Or latex and > LaTeX being shown in the same results pages. These issues can be resolved > with disambiguation result pages. > > How we choose which results are above or below? The rules are not fully > designed yet, but we can put official sites in the first place, then .gov > or .edu domains which are important ones, and later unofficial websites, > blogs, giving priority to local language, etc. And reaching consensus. > > We can control aggresive spam with spam blacklists, semi-protect or > protect highly visible pages, and use bots or tools to check changes. > > It obviously has a CC BY-SA license and results can be exported. I think > that this approach is the opposite to Google today. > > For weird queries like "Albert Einstein birthplace" we can redirect to the > most obvious results page (in this case Albert Einstein) using a hand-made > redirect or by software (some little change in MediaWiki). > > You can check a pretty alpha version here http://www.todogratix.es (only > Spanish by now sorry) which I'm feeding with some bots. > > I think that it is an interesting experiment. I'm open to your questions > and feedback. > > Regards, > emijrp > > -- > Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada. E-mail: emijrp AT gmail DOT com > Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain) > Projects: AVBOT <http://code.google.com/p/avbot/> | > StatMediaWiki<http://statmediawiki.forja.rediris.es> > | WikiEvidens <http://code.google.com/p/wikievidens/> | > WikiPapers<http://wikipapers.referata.com> > | WikiTeam <http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/> > Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/emijrp/ > > ------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > -- Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada. E-mail: emijrp AT gmail DOT com Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain) Projects: AVBOT <http://code.google.com/p/avbot/> | StatMediaWiki<http://statmediawiki.forja.rediris.es> | WikiEvidens <http://code.google.com/p/wikievidens/> | WikiPapers<http://wikipapers.referata.com> | WikiTeam <http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/> Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/emijrp/
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