User:Marian
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Welcome to the NSWiki coordination page for User:Marian.
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The war on spam
In the last year, I have engaged in a massive campaign to capture and flag link-spam for deletion. I have discovered and adopted many techniques to capture many types of link-spam, some of which were very old. For example, I use the search tools on this site to detect the common keywords and domain names that the spammers used in the link-spam. I have assisted Bettia by exposing the common keywords that the spammers use, so that other users can help flag link-spam.
On 19th June 2012, I have caught and flagged over 1,000 spam articles in four hours. My personal best is thirteen articles per minute, on 23rd June 2012. I discovered that many link-spam articles have gone undetected for many years: an article dating from 16th June 2006 is the oldest link-spam I have caught so far.
I should make you aware that while NSWiki has an anonymous WHOIS record, leaving link-spam uncaught may result in major search engines, including Google, blocking NSWiki from their search results. Such action will have serious consequences for NSWiki, including reduced site popularity and difficulty in searching NSWiki articles from major search engines.
It is obvious that the current method of blocking spammers and their IP addresses is not working. The current method only bans such IP addresses for up to 24 hours, which does no justice to tackle the problem: afterwards, the spammers are free to recreate accounts and repeat their practices.
The end of Template:Qif
I am reviewing and editing all NSWiki templates to make them comply with the syntax of the newly introduced ParserFunctions extension: I am making the conversion so that we can safely remove the resource-consuming {{Qif}} template from NSWiki. The following table shows how you can convert the templates, that currently depend on {{Qif}}, to the new syntax.
| Old format | {{qif|test={{{condition|}}}|then=true|else=false}}{{qif|{{{condition|}}}|true|false}}{{qif|{{{condition|}}}|true}}
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| New format | {{#if:{{{condition|}}}|true|false}}{{#if:{{{condition|}}}|true}}
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MediaWiki has a help article article, that will show you how to take advantage of the ParserFunctions extension.
What I do for NationStates
I run a number of countries, writing articles about them and flagging WikiSpam, while running a simple free trade and embassy RP project, writing GA resolutions and cataloguing SC Resolutions.
My countries
Contributions
Please refer to User:Marian/Contributions
External links advice
Fotopic, Geocities and Jolt
Fotopic.net disappeared without an explanation in March 2011 and the cause is currently unclear, but it cannot be considered a reliable image hosting provider any more. Users are advised to review their links and upload images to more stable providers like ImageShack or Blogger.
Geocities on Yahoo! was permanently closed on 27 October 2009 and all the sites which were created under the service have been deleted. There is a chance that your site may been archived on the Wayback Machine (web.archive.org) so you may want to review your Geocities external links. However, the archive is just as slow as dial-up so it is advisable to simply revise Geocities links to point to other websites and image hosts.
Jolt Online's NationStates forms have been permanently deleted without archiving it. My sympathies if you are now unable to retrieve the thread topic on the forum but it is Jolt's fault and not yours for the loss: NationStates relationship with Jolt is so bad that it is not surprising that they acted so mercilessly. however, let me assure you that no one on NationStates have any links with Jolt anymore... they're behind us now we're independent.
As a footnote, link spamming is now a zero tolerance offence on NSWiki, but rest assured that I have gone through the Wiki very deeply to identify pages which have not been caught: I believe now that nearly every offending page has been found, but if you find one, replace it with the {{delete}} tag.
Thank for reading!
(Side note: I didn't want to provide external links here because there have been incidents of malware advertising on sites, and not everyone has AdBlock like I do. --Marian 15:02, 30 March 2011 (UTC))
What I do
I am an editor of Wikipedia, as Marianian. I am also a Pro member of Yahoo! Flickr as Trowbridge Estate.
deviations
- Collecting Banknotes from all over the world except the Euro
- Aims to design currency banknotes.
favourite sites
- Internet Explorer is Evil! (contains strong language)
- BBC News (who else gives the best news)
- Al-Jazeera (with more Arab-world content than the BBC)
