[BioSQL-l] Spam on the wiki

Hilmar Lapp hlapp at gmx.net
Sun Feb 13 18:13:04 UTC 2011


Hi Peter,

I've cleaned up the wiki now (I think), and blocked the offending  
users (which of course won't stop any spammers from signing up  
afresh). I'll happily take you up on your offer to help out and gave  
you the same permissions as I have.

	-hilmar

On Feb 12, 2011, at 12:30 PM, Peter Cock wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Several of the OBF hosted wiki pages have suffered from spam recently,
> including BioSQL, see:
> http://www.biosql.org/wiki/Special:AllPages
>
> I've been keeping the Biopython wiki under control, and I know BioPerl
> folk have been busy too. Stricter controls on account creation are
> being looked at to stop this happening in future, but in the mean time
> I'll volunteer to remove the spam and block the existing bad accounts
> *if* someone can give me admin rights on the BioSQL wiki too (wiki
> username Peter).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
> (Biopython)

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