[BioRuby] Spamming on the BioRuby wiki

[Chris Fields]

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

On Feb 9, 2011, at 11:32 PM, Toshiaki Katayama wrote:

> Hi Hiro,
> 
> Thank you for your notification and deletion of spam texts.
> We had a similar problem few months ago but it occurred again, very sad.
> 
> We don't want to waste our time for reverting those wiki pages anymore,
> I'll ask OBF staff to require authorization before creating new account.
> Judged from current usage of the wiki and the size of our community,
> I think this change won't spoil our activity.
> 
> Toshiaki
> 
> 
> On 2011/02/10, at 13:59, MISHIMA, Hiroyuki wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Recently, I found spamming on the BioRuby wiki. Many user accounts and
>> spam articles seem to be created automatically.
>> 
>> Does anyone know good ways to prevent such activities?
>> 
>> Sincerely yours,
>> Hiro
>> -- 
>> MISHIMA, Hiroyuki, DDS, Ph.D.
>> COE Research Fellow
>> Department of Human Genetics
>> Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
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