Problem: Spam is replacing vandalism as our biggest problem
Who would benefit: Everyone. But probably first the English Wikipedia
Proposed solution: Use the articles and edits that have been deleted as spam to train an Artificial Intelligence bot to identify spam, tag it for deletion or revert it where it is certain it is spam and bring it to human attention where it is less confident
I'm a little fuzzy on the distinction between spam and vandalism. Aren't edits that are reverted as spam considered vandalism and used to train ClueBotNG? Is this just about pages rather than edits, then? {{u|Sdkb}}talk04:26, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Would be interested in helping to develop this, and have been planning a similar project to see if something like this would be feasible. JPxG (talk) 05:45, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Would be a great addition to the capabilities in m:User:LiWa3 (which are currently purely statistical). A bot could read from the feeds of LiWa3, or I could possibly hook it into an external process. Dirk BeetstraTC (en: U, T) 07:42, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support But only this makes sense in terms of what ORES already can or cannot do, I'd rather it wasn't an unrelated standalone tool/bot Base (talk) 19:47, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support If this can be done, it would be useful. This might be even more difficult, but detecting shillsockrings (is that a word? Orangemoody and Wiki-PR and the like) would be even more useful. HLHJ (talk) 02:19, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]