Project name Anti Vandalism Filters
Leader Sergiu Dumitriu, Marta Girdea
Estimated workload 2 man month
Details While access rights are a global way of ensuring that only trusted people can edit, and CAPTCHA gives moderate results for preventing automatic spamming, an automatic vandalism detection mechanism is better as it allows anybody to edit, and does not annoy people with deciphering terribly distorted letters.

Wikipedia does that with the help of bots that revert suspect edits. XWiki can block suspect edits before they even happen.

Some filters/features:

  • Autodetect clients making mass requests and block their IP for a certain amount of time
  • Autodetect bad edits based on the entered text (machine learning algorithms)
  • Work with an anti-spam service that lists "bad" IPs
  • Users can indicate bad edits so that the filter can learn from new instances
Volunteers

Active

Importance 3
Assignee

Year 2008
Developer profile Required:
  • Good Java programming
  • Machine Learning
  • Algorithms and Complexity
Helps:
  • Familiar with the XWiki code
  • Design Patterns
Version 2.1 last modified by Sergiu on 28/03/2008 at 00:16

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Creator: Sergiu on 2008/03/21 16:33
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