[Wikitech-l] Project Idea for GSoC 2013 - Bayesian Spam Filter

2013-04-07 Thread anubhav agarwal
Hi, I am Anubhav Agarwal, a B.Tech 4th Year student at IIT Roorkee. I wish to apply for GSoC 2013 and I am thinking about Bayesian Spam Filter as a project for the same. I have drafted the Idea on my talkpage. I request you to go through this and g

Re: [Wikitech-l] Project Idea for GSoC 2013 - Bayesian Spam Filter

2013-04-09 Thread Quim Gil
Hi Anubhav, On 04/07/2013 06:05 PM, anubhav agarwal wrote: Hi, I am Anubhav Agarwal, a B.Tech 4th Year student at IIT Roorkee. I wish to apply for GSoC 2013 and I am thinking about Bayesian Spam Filter as a project for the same. I have drafted the Idea on my talk

Re: [Wikitech-l] Project Idea for GSoC 2013 - Bayesian Spam Filter

2013-04-12 Thread Platonides
On 09/04/13 18:20, Quim Gil wrote: > Hi Anubhav, > > I have done a first reality check with Chris Steipp, who oversees the > area of security and also spam prevention. Your idea is interesting and > it seems to be feasible. This is a very good first step! > > It would require adding a hook to Med

Re: [Wikitech-l] Project Idea for GSoC 2013 - Bayesian Spam Filter

2013-04-12 Thread Brian Wolff
On 2013-04-12 7:33 PM, "Platonides" wrote: > > On 09/04/13 18:20, Quim Gil wrote: > > Hi Anubhav, > > > > I have done a first reality check with Chris Steipp, who oversees the > > area of security and also spam prevention. Your idea is interesting and > > it seems to be feasible. This is a very go

Re: [Wikitech-l] Project Idea for GSoC 2013 - Bayesian Spam Filter

2013-04-13 Thread Paul Selitskas
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Brian Wolff wrote: > > Qgill wrote: >>It might have a performance penalty in a site like English Wikipedia with > plenty of concurrent edits, but for starters it could be potentially useful > to the 99% of MediaWiki instances that have a significantly smaller numbe

Re: [Wikitech-l] Project Idea for GSoC 2013 - Bayesian Spam Filter

2013-04-14 Thread anubhav agarwal
Hey Quim, Thanks for such a detailed response. Sorry for being inactive for these few days, I was undergoing some coursework evaluations. On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Quim Gil wrote: > Hi Anubhav, > > > On 04/07/2013 06:05 PM, anubhav agarwal wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am Anubhav Agarwal, a B.T

Re: [Wikitech-l] Project Idea for GSoC 2013 - Bayesian Spam Filter

2013-04-14 Thread anubhav agarwal
Hi Platonides, On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Platonides wrote: > On 09/04/13 18:20, Quim Gil wrote: > > Hi Anubhav, > > > > I have done a first reality check with Chris Steipp, who oversees the > > area of security and also spam prevention. Your idea is interesting and > > it seems to be feas

Re: [Wikitech-l] Project Idea for GSoC 2013 - Bayesian Spam Filter

2013-04-15 Thread Platonides
On 14/04/13 15:41, anubhav agarwal wrote: > I don't we could take in account the roll back for automated learning. It > is not necessary that the person who edited the document, then rolled it > back did because it was a spam. Getting the right data to train from is hard, since wiki is so flexible

Re: [Wikitech-l] Project Idea for GSoC 2013 - Bayesian Spam Filter

2013-04-15 Thread Quim Gil
On 04/14/2013 06:34 AM, anubhav agarwal wrote: Hey Quim, Thanks for such a detailed response. Sorry for being inactive for these few days, I was undergoing some coursework evaluations. I hope they went well. First things first! You have some homework to do here as well. It is time to start dr

Re: [Wikitech-l] Project Idea for GSoC 2013 - Bayesian Spam Filter

2013-04-23 Thread anubhav agarwal
Hey Quim, I have drafted my proposal on my User page. I have already opened a bug in mediawiki for the Extension request in bugzilla. Here is the link. I will be glad to have your feedback. Ca

Re: [Wikitech-l] Project Idea for GSoC 2013 - Bayesian Spam Filter

2013-04-23 Thread Quim Gil
On 04/23/2013 05:42 AM, anubhav agarwal wrote: Hey Quim, I have drafted my proposal on my User page. I have already opened a bug in mediawiki for the Extension request in bugzilla. Here is the link