Extension:SmiteSpam

**MediaWiki extensions manual**
SmiteSpam Release status: stable

Implementation	Special page , API
Description	Provides a special page helping administrators identify and delete spam
Author(s)	Vivek Ghaisas (Polybuildr^talk)
Latest version	0.1
MediaWiki	1.25+
Database changes	Yes
License	GNU General Public License 2.0
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Parameters $wgSmiteSpamCheckers $wgSmiteSpamThreshold $wgSmiteSpamIgnoreSmallPages $wgSmiteSpamIgnorePagesWithNoExternalLinks $wgQueryPageSize $wgDisplayPageSize
Added rights smitespam
Hooks used LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates
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The SmiteSpam extension provides a special page "Special:SmiteSpam" helping administrators identify and delete spam pages.

UsageEdit

Navigate to "Special:SmiteSpam" in order to run the analyzer and get a list of pages that the extension identifies as spam. You can use the interface to block users, delete pages created by them or trust a user you know to be good contributors.

The list of trusted users can be viewed and edited at "Special:SmiteSpamTrustedUsers".

InstallationEdit

Download and place the file(s) in a directory called SmiteSpam in your extensions/ folder.

Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php:
```
require_once "$IP/extensions/SmiteSpam/SmiteSpam.php";
```
Run the update script which will automatically create the necessary database tables that this extension needs.
Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Note that this extension requires that the API is enabled, i.e. that $wgEnableAPI = true. The API is enabled by default, so no additional action is required unless you have explicitly disabled this setting.

ConfigurationEdit

User rightEdit

By default, this extension can only be used by sysops. You can change it: e.g. let also bureaucrats use it by adding the following line to your "LocalSettings.php" file.

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

ParametersEdit

Parameter	Default Value	Comment
`$wgSmiteSpamThreshold`	0.7	Pages analyzed as having a spam "probability" higher than this will be shown on special page.
`$wgSmiteSpamIgnoreSmallPages`	true	Should SmiteSpam ignore pages smaller than 500 characters?
`$wgSmiteSpamIgnorePagesWithNoExternalLinks`	true	Should SmiteSpam ignore all pages that don't have any external links outside of template calls?
`$wgQueryPageSize`	500	Number of pages to analyze in one AJAX request. (Setting this too high can cause timeouts.)
`$wgDisplayPageSize`	250	Number of pages to display in one paginated page.

$wgSmiteSpamCheckers is a parameter that lets you choose which "checkers" you want to run and how much weight (value) you want to give to each of their reports.

By default, this is set to:

$wgSmiteSpamCheckers = array(
	'ExternalLinks' => 1,
	'RepeatedExternalLinks' => 1,
	'Wikitext' => 1,
);

CheckersEdit

ExternalLinks

Checks how much of the text (ratio) is external links.

RepeatedExternalLinks

Checks whether there are repeated external links.

Wikitext

Checks how much wikitext is there in the contents of the page.

ScreenshotsEdit

Special:SmiteSpamEdit

An example of a SmiteSpam page that a user may be first greeted with.

Special:SmiteSpamTrustedUsersEdit

An example of a SmiteSpam Trusted Users page.