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All [[large public wiki]]s get [[spam]] - unsolicited commercial content which, in [[wiki]]s, is typically inserted randomly in articles by [[anonymous edit]]s. | |||
[[Consumerium Services]] must be especially watchful of commercial activity since the [[Consumerium buying signal]] directly influences buying decisions! Any removal of accurate negative data, or insertion of inaccurate positive data, or any [[systemic bias]] in demoting or promoting some commercial service or product over another, would seriously degrade trust in that buying signal and the whole [[healthy buying infrastructure]]. So it is important to really understand '''wiki spam''' and all the ways [[funded troll]]s might provide some advantage by manipulating or altering the overall [[Publish Wiki]] and [[Research Wiki]] mechanisms that, end to end, affect the [[price premium]]s and [[green light]]s. | |||
Here are some references on the generic problem of public wiki spam: | |||
* CommunityWiki http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/community/WikiSpam | * CommunityWiki http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/community/WikiSpam | ||
* c2 http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiSpam | * c2 http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiSpam | ||
* OpenWiki http://openwiki.com/ow.asp?WikiSpam | * OpenWiki http://openwiki.com/ow.asp?WikiSpam | ||
* Meatball http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiSpam | |||
* s23 http://wiki.s23.org/wiki.pl?WikiSpam | * s23 http://wiki.s23.org/wiki.pl?WikiSpam | ||
* | * GründerWiki http://www.wikiservice.at/gruender/wiki.cgi?WikiSpam (German) | ||
* blog chongqed.org http://chongqed.org/ | * blog chongqed.org http://chongqed.org/ | ||
Most differentiate between '''wiki spam''' which is externally motivated, and genuine "[[new troll]]s", those '''honestly attracted by the [[wiki mission]].''' Not the old trolls that started the wiki, because they '''neurotically thought they were the best people to control''' the wiki mission. By definition the new trolls are sincere, while the old trolls simply seek to retain power. In this view, a '''spammer''' is an old troll from the existing ''real world''' [[power structure]] of money and interests, who ''masquerades'' as a new troll. This makes new trolls look bad, and helps justify [[sysop vandalism]]; | |||
True trolls are made by [[troll-formative injustice]] and maintained by [[anti-troll bias]]. In general they do not make bald pro-corporate comments or link to commercial web sites unless they are truly the best reference on some issue. This is rare, and the rarity of it can actually be detected and used to determine who is a [[funded troll]] from the old power structure, and who is a genuinely concerned activist from the [[New Troll point of view]]. | True trolls are made by [[troll-formative injustice]] and maintained by [[anti-troll bias]]. In general they do not make bald pro-corporate comments or link to commercial web sites unless they are truly the best reference on some issue. This is rare, and the rarity of it can actually be detected and used to determine who is a [[funded troll]] from the old power structure, and who is a genuinely concerned activist from the [[New Troll point of view]]. | ||
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::::So-called "[[spam]]" is a symptom of having no clear process to deal with the [[funded troll]]. Most [[wiki spam]] is actually subtle and consists of inappropriate references to commercial products or services including raising questions or issues about them that put one type of service in a competitive advantage to another. | ::::So-called "[[spam]]" is a symptom of having no clear process to deal with the [[funded troll]]. Most [[wiki spam]] is actually subtle and consists of inappropriate references to commercial products or services including raising questions or issues about them that put one type of service in a competitive advantage to another. | ||
:::::''side note'' - Obviously [[Consumerium buying signal]] is doing this honestly and openly. But much [[Wikimedia corruption]] consists of an over-tolerance for specific corporate interests, e.g. | :::::''side note'' - Obviously [[Consumerium buying signal]] is doing this honestly and openly. But much [[Wikimedia corruption]] consists of an over-tolerance for specific corporate interests, e.g. Bomis, that advance their own interests over the [[GFDL corpus]] as a whole by sponsoring [[sysop vandalism]]. | ||
::::Tolerating unlimited [funded troll]]s is to permit the [[systemic bias]] of "whoever has money to pay them" into the [[community point of view]]. But to react by censoring them has of course the opposite effect to that intended: if I wish to promote [[Coca-Cola]] then I simply insert spam for [[Pepsi]] and the reactive stupidity of the [[sysop power structure]] will end up favouring my actual sponsor. So the right reaction is one process that doesn't care who is funded and who is not, and simply determines that: | ::::Tolerating unlimited [funded troll]]s is to permit the [[systemic bias]] of "whoever has money to pay them" into the [[community point of view]]. But to react by censoring them has of course the opposite effect to that intended: if I wish to promote [[Coca-Cola]] then I simply insert spam for [[Pepsi]] and the reactive stupidity of the [[sysop power structure]] will end up favouring my actual sponsor. So the right reaction is one process that doesn't care who is funded and who is not, and simply determines that: | ||
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:::::There are other useful tests like "is the URI linked to, presently for sale?" If so then it's likely someone trying to boost up the [[page view]]s. | :::::There are other useful tests like "is the URI linked to, presently for sale?" If so then it's likely someone trying to boost up the [[page view]]s. | ||
==Solutions...how to fight spam on wikis== | |||
I have a mediawiki site set up that just got spam links (ment to increase page rank in google), how do you fight this? | |||
*The only solution I can think of is having what many sites use to stop automated form submission, which is have an image that contains a word that the user has to retype. This would be a slight burdon to the user, but it would make the user and the spammer on the same level, since one could delete spam just as fast as a spammer could produce it. [[wikibooks:User:RobKohr]] | |||