Hi Platonides,

On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 09/04/13 18:20, Quim Gil wrote:
> > Hi Anubhav,
> >
> > 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.
> I agree. Adding a hook is no problem.
>
> > The rest could be developed as an extension of
> > the ConfirmEdit extension.
>
> I'm not sure on adding it to ConfirmEdit. I would develop it as an
> independent extension, which could then hook into ConfirmEdit or
> AbuseFilter.
>
> Anubhav wrote:
> > Tasks
> >
> > Create a tool for wiki users to report Spam. A a simple way to
> > train the a Bayesian DB. This should be accessible for any user
> > with the permissions to "undo" or "rollback" those changes or to
> > delete the new page/file. Understanding the metadata(IP, links,
> > user) I can extract from the data (perhaps harnessing other
> > services like blacklists).
>
> I think it would be more interesting if it could be trained
> automatically. Perhaps by automatically learning rollbacks as "wrong".
> Maybe there could be a checkbox to "train as spam" when doing a revert,
> but I would avoid anything complex like "Go to Special:TrainSpam and
> enter the revision number to mark as spam".
>

I don't we could take in account the roll back for automated learning. It
is not necessary that the person who edited the document, then rolled it
back did because it was a spam.

Though a "Train as spam" checkbox is a good idea. I was thinking about the
"report spam" button along with "edit" button on the top-right hand corner
of a section.


>
> Good luck!
>
>
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-- 
Cheers,
Anubhav


Anubhav Agarwal| 4rth Year  | Computer Science & Engineering | IIT Roorkee
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