[BioRuby] Spamming on the BioRuby wiki

[Chris Fields]

On Feb 11, 2011, at 6:12 PM, Peter Cock wrote:

> 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

We can switch to that if needed.  Jason had problems getting ReCaptcha working, but I may take a crack at it before we move to a manual system (which may be more of a pain, considering how many spam requests might be made).

chris