Hey Quim, Thanks for such a detailed response. Sorry for being inactive for these few days, I was undergoing some coursework evaluations.
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Anubhav, > > > On 04/07/2013 06:05 PM, anubhav agarwal wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am Anubhav Agarwal, a B.Tech 4th Year student at IIT Roorkee. I wish to >> apply for GSoC 2013 and I am thinking about Bayesian Spam Filter as a >> project for the same. I have drafted the Idea on my >> talk<http://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/User:Anubhav_iitr<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Anubhav_iitr> >> >page. >> > > I have done a first reality check with Chris Steipp, who oversees the area > of security and also spam prevention. Your idea is interesting and it seems > to be feasible. This is a very good first step! > > It would require adding a hook to MediaWiki core, but this could be a > small, acceptable change. The rest could be developed as an extension of > the ConfirmEdit extension. > > It might have a performance penalty in a site like English Wikipedia with > plenty of concurrent edits, but for starters it could be potentially useful > to the 99% of MediaWiki instances that have a significantly smaller number > of daily edits and especially a very small number of editors and tools able > / happy to deal with spam. > I was thinking of creating a Job Queue for big websites like Wikipedia, each edit will go in a queue which will be processed offline and then later roll backed to the original content if it triggers the alarm. > > As a next step, please > > 1. Create a subpage for your proposal e.g. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/* > *User:Anubhav_iitr/Bayesan_**spam_filter<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Anubhav_iitr/Bayesan_spam_filter> > > 2. File an enhancement request at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.** > org/enter_bug.cgi?product=**MediaWiki%20extensions<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions>under > "Extensions requests" explaining your proposal and linking to the > related wiki page. > > 3. Reply to this thread sharing the link to the bug report so anybody > interested can watch it. > > Here is the link for the bug<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47207>, as you said. > > > I request you to go through this and give your suggestions on it. >> > > Yes, but you will get more feedback if you are diligent answering to the > feedback received: > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**User_talk:Anubhav_iitr<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_talk:Anubhav_iitr> > :) > > > -- > Quim Gil > Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**User:Qgil<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil> > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l> -- Cheers, Anubhav Anubhav Agarwal| 4rth Year | Computer Science & Engineering | IIT Roorkee _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
