In the spirit of holding off on proposing solutions let’s analyze the problem further:
There are actually two parts to it:
Firstly, how can we keep a high quality of the wiki content?
I think the important metrics in this part is the ratio of spammers to the numbers of people who are willing to moderate the wiki and the easiness of editing a page or creating a new page compared to restoring the previous version.
Secondly, how can we keep the recent wiki edits section relevant?
This depends solely on how we can identify the relevant information.
On Nov. 10 there were 21 changes: 2 real edits, 7 new spam users, and 12 page-deletions/user-blocks (cleaning up after the spam). On Nov. 11 there were 37 changes: 2 real edits, 15 new spam users and 20 page-deletions/user-blocks.
That’s a significant drain on Gwern and Vladimir’s time that could (and should) not be wasted. (They are the only two who are moderating it at the moment, as far as I can tell.)
The second question isn’t relevant; we are talking about how the wiki has a large amount of spam (and how to stop it), not how LW presents the recent edits.
In the spirit of holding off on proposing solutions let’s analyze the problem further: There are actually two parts to it:
Firstly, how can we keep a high quality of the wiki content?
I think the important metrics in this part is the ratio of spammers to the numbers of people who are willing to moderate the wiki and the easiness of editing a page or creating a new page compared to restoring the previous version.
Secondly, how can we keep the recent wiki edits section relevant?
This depends solely on how we can identify the relevant information.
On Nov. 10 there were 21 changes: 2 real edits, 7 new spam users, and 12 page-deletions/user-blocks (cleaning up after the spam). On Nov. 11 there were 37 changes: 2 real edits, 15 new spam users and 20 page-deletions/user-blocks.
That’s a significant drain on Gwern and Vladimir’s time that could (and should) not be wasted. (They are the only two who are moderating it at the moment, as far as I can tell.)
The second question isn’t relevant; we are talking about how the wiki has a large amount of spam (and how to stop it), not how LW presents the recent edits.