Robert Rohde wrote: >I suspect we could weed out a lot of spammy link behavior by designing an >external link classifier that used knowledge of what external links are >frequently included and what external links are frequently removed to >generate automatic good / suspect / bad ratings for new external links (or >domains). Good links (e.g. NYTimes, CNN) might be automatically allowed >for all users, suspect links (e.g. unknown or rarely used domains) might >be automatically allowed for established users and challenged with >captchas or other tools for new users / IPs, and bad links (i.e. those >repeatedly spammed and removed) could be automatically detected and >blocked.
I really like this idea. I filed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78113 to make sure it doesn't get lost. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
