Anti-spam monitoring

[Chris Watkins]

Thanks to AbuseFilter, Appropedia has much better spam control now. It also lets us put a "tag" on edits by new and anon users, so we can display only those: http://www.appropedia.org/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&tagfilter=n

If you've set up AbuseFilter extension on your wiki and you'd like our code, let us know. (We had to write the code, as AbuseFilter is empty to begin with.)

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From: Chris Watkins <chrisw...@appropedia.org>
Date: Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:54 PM
Subject: Recent Changes Patrol
To: Appropedia community <appropedia...@googlegroups.com>


Thanks to all those who help with patrolling changes on Appropedia, keeping it free of spam and keeping everything.

I want to share a new tool - a RecentChanges feed that shows only anonymous and new users (which is where all our spam comes from):

http://www.appropedia.org/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&tagfilter=n

I want to focus on improving our spam filter, and developing an intern program for Appropedia, so I'm cutting back to checking once per day - nighttime, eastern Australia time (UTC+10). I'm not sure what time other Appropedians do their patrol, but if we have a few more at different times, and with an improved spam filter, we should be set.

More helpful links & info: 
Appropedia:Recent Changes Patrol‎

And if anyone notices a new pattern in spam hitting the site, let me know and I'll work on building that into the spam filter.

Thanks again!

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Chris Watkins

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Chris Watkins

Appropedia.org - Sharing knowledge to build rich, sustainable lives.