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".

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