[Biopython-dev] Spam on wiki

Peter biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk
Wed Mar 24 10:47:43 UTC 2010


2010/3/24 Tiago Antão <tiagoantao at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> 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?
>
> Tiago

Hi,

I'm subscribed to the wiki RSS feed, but this happened overnight
so I hadn't seen it yet. This seems to happen about once a month
or so - I haven't noticed a big rise in attacks or anything. This guy
did about ten pages - normally only one or two get abused.

Dealing with it is fairly easy - you click on the page history, and
rollback to the last good page, and ban the user. Tell me your wiki
username and I should be able to give you the rights needed to
ban people.

Peter




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