MDN/Projects/SPAM Fight

MDN has started to be a target for SPAM. This page record and track the initiative we are making to fight SPAM in order to keep MDN friendly and relevant.

NOTE: Because this is a sensitive problem, many of the documents listed here are restricted to Mozilla employees only. We try to be as open as possible but we need to be in a safer environnement to open everything.

Project organization

Even if it's an ongoing issue, it is managed as a regular project in order to be able to address short term, medium term and long term solutions.

People in charge (RACI)

• Accountable stack holders are:
  • Ali Spivak (Head of Developer Marketing, MDN product owner)
  • Benjamin Sternthal (Head of the Marketing Web Developers team)
• Responsible people are:
  • Jeremie Patonnier: Project lead
  • John Whitlock: Dev lead
• Consulted people are: All members of the MDN Spam Watch mailing list.
• Informed people are all MDN contributors

Because of the intensity of SPAM, MDN had to turn off account creation. As long as we aren't able to turn on account creation back, the decision process is shorten (meaning no public discussion) and John and Jeremie are doing crisis management, taking all relevant decisions on a daily basis. As soon as account creation is safely turned on, the project management will resume to a traditional open and agile process.

Want to help?

You are more than welcome. If you have any idea to help fighting SPAM, please fill out that form:

• MDN SPAM Fight Idea
• Check out submitted ideas (Mozilla employees only)

You are also welcome to reach out to Jeremie and John.

• On IRC in the #mdndev channel
• By e-mail on the MDN mailing list

Problem analysis

• SPAM Threat Analysis
• Q1 2016 analysis + data recording

Kuma Development

Main tracking bug: MDNSpam

Content contribution strategy

The current UGC strategy for MDN is to let everybody editing and creating new content on MDN without any special constrain. The current level of SPAM we are facing force us to reconsider that strategy to something a little bit more less open, at least for new contributors.

Editor onboarding pathway (Draft WIP)