[ImageJ-devel] Dubious new Wiki accounts, was Re: [fiji-devel] Re: New imglib2-algorithms-legacy

[Stephan Saalfeld]

Hi,

a Captcha would help to get the spam off the RSS feed that previously
was a very useful tool.  Since we support intelligent image processing
we may be willing to warmly welcome bots that can read captchas ;)

Any solution that cleans up the news-feed be it Captcha or turn back to
user-invited accounts is very welcome.  Thanks.

Best,
Stephan




On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 02:07 -0500, Johannes Schindelin wrote: 
> Hi Stephan,
> 
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2012, Stephan Saalfeld wrote:
> 
> > as a subscriber to the Fiji Wiki RSS feed I see that about 10 new users
> > register at the Wiki per each day since it's open.  If those are not
> > bots then hooray, we are getting thousands of contributors in the next
> > few months.  However, none of the new users has yet contributed anything
> > and they all have very web1.0 ICQ-names that makes me believe that
> > actually they are bots.  I do not know if we should stress openness so
> > far to welcome script-kids to play with our Wiki---sounds like a lot of
> > hairy administration work.  For now, it renders the RSS-feed annoying
> > and useless.
> 
> I am sorry for that!
> 
> However, I activated the "Register by-email" for a reason... almost all of
> them are not what MediaWiki calls "authenticated", and I plan to use the
> "Merge and Delete Users" on user accounts that have not been authenticated
> for a week.
> 
> If this bothers you, I can add something like a Captcha, but I do not
> expect any spam on the Wiki.
> 
> Ciao,
> Dscho