[Biopython-dev] Spam on wiki

Peter biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk
Wed Mar 24 11:13:12 UTC 2010


2010/3/24 Tiago Antão <tiagoantao at gmail.com>:
> 2010/3/24 Tiago Antão <tiagoantao at gmail.com>:
>> I think we are being attacked, spam wise. The popgen_dev page was full
>> with external links.
>> I am clearing that page, but others might have the same problem. Maybe
>> there is some what to automate the deletion of contributions from spam
>> authors?
>
> I am clearing this
> http://www.biopython.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Wiki0808
> by hand, not much.
>

The "rollback" link on the page history is the simplest route
(you are now an administrator on the wiki so should be able
to do this, and ban spammers). I don't know if there is a
shortcut to revert all a user's recent changes.

I think between us we have fixed all the pages now.

Thanks,

Peter




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