SmiteSpam extension

Version 0.5
Vivek Ghaisas and Yaron Koren

This is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License. Please see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html for further details, including the full text and terms of the license.

Overview

SmiteSpam is an extension to MediaWiki that defines a special page, Special:SmiteSpam, which analyzes the content on the wiki to try to identify pages containing spam, and provides an interface to let administrators delete any such pages, and block the user accounts or IP addresses that created them.

For more information, see the extension homepage at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SmiteSpam

Requirements

This version of the SmiteSpam extension requires MediaWiki 1.35 or higher.

Installation

To install the extension, place the entire 'SmiteSpam' directory within your MediaWiki 'extensions' directory, then add the following line to your 'LocalSettings.php' file:

wfLoadExtension( 'SmiteSpam' );

By default, access to Special:SmiteSpam is only given to those in the 'sysop' group. To allow others, for example bureaucrats, to access it, add the following to LocalSettings.php:

$wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['smitespam'] = true;

SmiteSpam assigns a probability, from 0 to 1, that any specific page holds spam. By default, it only shows pages with a probability rating of 0.7 or higher of being spam. To change this value, you can add a line like the following:

$wgSmiteSpamThreshold = 0.5;

By default, SmiteSpam will ignore pages with fewer than 500 characters. To analyze such pages as well, add the following to LocalSettings.php:

$wgSmiteSpamIgnoreSmallPages = false;

By default, pages containing no external links will also be ignored. To include them, add the following:

$wgSmiteSpamIgnorePagesWithNoExternalLinks = false;

See the extension homepage for several other allowed settings.

Authors

This extension was created by Vivek Ghaisas as part of the 2015 Google Summer of Code. It is maintained by Vivek Ghaisas and Yaron Koren.

Contact

Most comments, questions, suggestions and bug reports should be sent to the main MediaWiki mailing list:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l