Spam here on
WardsWiki acts as a sort of
RandomPages, except that it demands attention from those who care. It brings to our attention pages that might otherwise be forgotten and cycles them up into
RecentChanges, where more people get to see them.
Ah, there is
something good about the amount of spam we're seeing.
Actually, I was thinking something along the same lines. The only sad thing is that it destroys the last genuine modification date. There's something very nice about finding a page that hasn't been modified in two, three or maybe even five years.
Agreed - the same is true of pages having categories put on them.
I think of any process that touches old pages as "turning the compost".
- spam removal
- categorization
- fixing spelling mistakes
- fixing BrokenLinks
- resurrecting old conversations
This only really makes a difference to
RecentChangesJunkies. There are many other ways for
WikiGnomes to dig beneath the tip of the
WikiIceberg, such as
RandomPages,
WantedPages, and
ReallyValuablePages. They also look at random searches and
BackLinks.
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