[Open-bio-l] Open Bio Wiki spamming

Chris Fields cjfields at illinois.edu
Sat Aug 7 05:22:22 UTC 2010


Thanks Dave.  Looks like it's clean pretty much to last August, so I'll not worry about it, beyond re-echoing the need for a better captcha system.

chris

On Aug 6, 2010, at 6:08 PM, Dave Clements wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> 
> Try 
> 
>   http://www.open-bio.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&limit=500&month=&year=
> 
> Dave C
> 
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Andy Jenkinson <andy.jenkinson at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
> The biodas wiki has tons, but not all visible - mostly user pages. I gave up doing anything about it unless I spot it on a page. You can do:
> http://www.biodas.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&days=30
> 
> I'm not sure if the registrations are automated or not, but I suspect so. A better captcha would be very much appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andy
> 
> On 6 Aug 2010, at 17:28, Chris Fields wrote:
> 
> > All,
> >
> > I found a ton of spammed links on the main OBF wiki this morning, spanning the last month.  My guess is this has been going on for a bit now (e.g. beyond the last month).  Anyone know of a way to check over edits past one month?
> >
> > Also wondering if we need to go with a better captcha system than what we currently have in place.  Any suggestions?
> >
> > chris
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> On 6 Aug 2010, at 17:28, Chris Fields wrote:
> 
> > All,
> >
> > I found a ton of spammed links on the main OBF wiki this morning, spanning the last month.  My guess is this has been going on for a bit now (e.g. beyond the last month).  Anyone know of a way to check over edits past one month?
> >
> > Also wondering if we need to go with a better captcha system than what we currently have in place.  Any suggestions?
> >
> > chris
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