Template:Eatthis


 * We ate this page and you can have it! Instead of trying to completely eradicate spam, we're removing  external links and use this crap for other purposes.

Eat This
Don't Delete It If You Can Eat It!

Let's fight the darn spam bots in a new way! We had chongqing a while ago. It's time for a new way. We want open wikis, we don't want spammers and their bots.

Leaving the spam text and removing the links could be a powerful disincentive to spam on wikis. The resulting spam text can be used in different ways. Ideally there'd be a way to signal search engines they should not like a page like this?

We have
 * an extension based on the Nuke extension that gives a list of pages by a user and eats them:
 * clean up the pages a little bit
 * add this template to the page
 * eatthis button - next to delete and protect and in recent changes (an option "eatthis" like "delete" which will remove all links, add this template and block the user)

TODO

 * add wikilinks to pages outside of EatThis: - will first try with Jobs
 * how to separate eaten content from the rest of the wiki?
 * Using the EatThis category is another option
 * EatThis:xxxx namespace? and redirect there?
 * find a way to signal search engines they should not like this page - without punishing the rest of the wiki
 * adding noindex to an eaten page wouldn't suffice since it would cease being a disincentive