Extension:Athena

The Athena extension is an experimental anti-spam tool, which uses a series of context-based filters to try and identify spam. The tool uses a learning algorithm and user reinforcement to adapt to new spam. While the tool has shown some promising results, it is not production ready. You can read more about the results in this report. Bug tracking is currently managed through ShoutWiki's Phabricator.

Configuration parameters

 * $wgAthenaSpamThreshold:Unused: While important to the original algorithm, this variable is no longer used and is due to be removed
 * $wgAthenaTraining: If true, then Athena will be in training mode - it will record statistics, but will not make any calculations or declare the article as spam or not.

User rights

 * athena: This allows the user access to Special:Athena, the page to view Athena's logs and reinforce the system