1268040 - [User Story] As a spam admin I want to filter out known writers so I can scan for spam more efficiently

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

Currently, the way to scan for spam on MDN is to monitor the revision dashboard [1]. Most changes are made by known authors with MDN staff writers being responsible for more than 1/3 of all changes. These changes don't need to be monitored in general and get in the way of catching spam. 

Filtering out known authors would make scanning the dashboard much more efficient.

My suggestion:

1. Create group "Known Authors"
2. Add drop down filter do revision dashboard: All Authors / Unknown Authors

Definition of Unknown Authors: Everyone not in "Known Authors".

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/Doc_status$history

Comment 1

[Safwan Rahman (:safwan)]

This is the link of Revision Dashboard BTW! 

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/dashboards/revisions

Comment 2

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

Oh yeah, copy/paste error. Thank you, Safwan.

Comment 3

[John Whitlock [:jwhitlock]]

There's an existing "Trusted Writers" group that already has the people that I'd expect on the Known Author's list. I'd like to reuse that group rather than create a new one.

I think the way to ship this is a Constance config that has the group ID of the "Known Writers" group, with a default of 0 that disables the feature.

Comment 4

[John Whitlock [:jwhitlock]]

:atopal confirmed in meeting, this should be a new group "Known Authors", not reusing "Trusted Writers".

Comment 5

[MDN Team (:mdn-dev)]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/kuma

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/2746293db54f02e9e375a13d302c983b226add2c
bug 1268040 - add filter for known and unknown revision authors

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/37688f9ae4c855ee89d3d4df436cd55853366276
bug 1268040 - add filter for known and unknown revision authors

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/601eb7ad31c03037a863ee02a073f6fb4d0cd25c
bug 1268040 - Remove duplicate AUTHOR_CHOICES.

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/c8e5efcebc5ff2e47b081ffe57eb3777259ad62b
Merge pull request #3861 from caktus/1268040-dashboard-filter-known-authors

bug 1268040 - dashboard filter for known authors

Comment 6

[John Whitlock [:jwhitlock]]

Change pushed to production. Topal reports "wow, after removing known authors, the english RD is not even a full page long. so much easier to review :)"