Extension:SmiteSpam

The SmiteSpam extension provides a special page "Special:SmiteSpam" helping administrators identify and delete spam pages.

Usage
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".

Download
You can download the SmiteSpam code, in .zip format, here:

https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-SmiteSpam/archive/0.4.zip

You can also download the code directly via Git from the MediaWiki source code repository (see available tags). From a command line, you can call the following:

To view the code online, including version history for each file, go.

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:

Once you have the code set up, SmiteSpam has a database table, "smitespam_trusted_user", that must be created. You will need to create it by going to MediaWiki's /maintenance directory and calling the following:

php update.php

User right
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.

Parameters
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:

Checkers
Checks how much of the text (ratio) is external links. Checks whether there are repeated external links. Checks how much wikitext is there in the contents of the page.
 * ExternalLinks
 * RepeatedExternalLinks
 * Wikitext

Version history
The version history for this extension is:
 * 0.1 - September 6, 2015 - Initial version
 * 0.2 - March 14, 2020 - extension.json added; support removed for MW < 1.29; submit button added to bottom of form in Special:SmiteSpam; fixed select all/none to also account for pages created by blocked users; added special page links to Extension:AdminLinks interface; files rearranged
 * 0.3 - April 20, 2020 - Renamed $wgQueryPageSize and $wgDisplayPageSize variables to $wgSmiteSpamQueryPageSize and $wgSmiteSpamDisplayPageSize, respectively; more file rearranging
 * 0.4 - August 3, 2022 - Removed SmiteSpam.php; support removed for MW < 1.35; support added for MW >= 1.37