[BioRuby] Spamming on the BioRuby wiki

Peter Cock p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com
Sat Feb 12 00:12:06 UTC 2011


On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Chris Fields <cjfields at illinois.edu> wrote:
> This has been happening across all the OBF wikis unfortunately.
> I think Jason is adding a ReCaptcha system for bioperl.org,
> might be a good idea to do the same for bioruby.
>
> chris

Hi Chris,

I hope the ReCaptcha system works and can be applied
to all the OBF wikis. If it doesn't stop the spam, I think
the suggestion that account creation should require manual
authorisation is a good idea - certainly on Biopython the
number of real wiki account requests is low.

Peter




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