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! > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > 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
