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 _______________________________________________ ImageJ-devel mailing list [email protected] http://imagej.net/mailman/listinfo/imagej-devel
