Appropedia:Anti-spam and anti-vandalism: Difference between revisions

The most effective anti-vandalism measure is an active community. We have a team of people (the Recent Changes Patrol monitoring all edits made, and vandalism and spam are quickly reverted.

We are also looking at other measures such as bots (as used with great efficiency at Wikipedia) to monitor and quickly revert vandalism.

See also the talk page, for further discussion.

Suggestions

• implement a bot or bots taken (with permission) from Wikipedia spam & vandal-fighters. E.g. ^W These could run on the server, for faster, 24-hour operation.
• ban page creation by anons & new accounts (like Wikipedia) - On Appropedia, it is likely that some readers will never sign up until they are ready to create a page based on their project.
• implement soft-protection for pages that are spam targets
• reverse Turing tests
  • Currently implemented in some cases.
• implementation of the ^W function, to be used when pages become targets of negative behavior of any kind

See also

• Appropedia:Recent changes patrol

Interwiki links

• meta:Anti-vandalism ideas
• Wikipedia:Project:Bot policy
• Wikipedia:Project:Spam
• Wikipedia:Project:Vandalism - and note the See also links at the bottom.
• meta:Vandalbot - a script which automatically performs some kind of malicious edit or similar operation to a wiki at high rate.