Hi Cristian, On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Cristian Consonni <[email protected]> wrote: > 2014-04-18 0:46 GMT+02:00 Lodewijk <[email protected]>: >> * There is a specific need, a conference we could support, a developer >> event or something we could help out with. There is a clear goal, and it is >> one-time. We have a clear benefit. For example: helping OTRS to become less >> messy. > > [OT] > As a Wikimedia list moderator (just a couple, the Wiki Loves Monuments > ones) I am ready to pay gold for anything that would reduce the amount > of spam in the queues be it a better spam filter, a system to delete > spam from multiple lists at once, magic or whatever! > > Cristian > p.s.: "pay gold" is a figure of speech, but I would definitely > personally support such a project!
yeah, as moderator on some other lists, I share your feelings about spam. Note though that SpamAssassin is already running in our Mailman installation and generating spam scores for mailing list messages, just not actively discarding them based on these scores. A few weeks ago, Daniel from Ops wrote up some documentation on how you can activate that for your list as a list admin: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lists.wikimedia.org#Fighting_spam_in_mailman The current blocker is that it is generating some false positives, i.e. someone would need to spend time to tweak and test the settings: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56525 So it looks we have to some of our own homework first here. But if it turns out that there are limitations in SpamAssassin which we could help them overcome to make it more effective for our purposes, that might be a very good use of donor money. (As an example concerning your suggestion for "a system to delete spam from multiple lists at once": I'm not sure if SpamAssassin is currently integrated with Mailman in a way that enables it to learn from list moderator actions immediately. See e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpamAssassin#Bayesian_filtering http://www.jamesh.id.au/articles/mailman-spamassassin/ --> "The Future" ) > [OT] > -- Tilman Bayer Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
