Re: [Jmol-developers] Wiki - recent proliferation of abusive new users

2011-03-06 Thread Nicolas Vervelle
It seems that ReCaptcha is not enough to prevent spamming and vandalism :( Several edits since yesterday. I have modified the wiki configuration so that email is necessary to register, and that the email must be validated before editing pages. What do you think about this option ? Nico On Sat, M

Re: [Jmol-developers] Wiki - recent proliferation of abusive new users

2011-03-05 Thread Nicolas Vervelle
ReCaptcha is now up and running on Jmol wiki. I left the default configuration : I think it is just triggered on a new user account or on bad login or on adding an url link in a page. If you think we should change the configuration, tell me. Nico On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Nicolas Vervelle w

Re: [Jmol-developers] Wiki - recent proliferation of abusive new users

2011-03-05 Thread Nicolas Vervelle
Thanks User Merge extension is setup and should be available to you Angel if you want to give it a try. I also tried to install ConfirmEdit to use ReCaptcha but I get an error : ReCaptcha extends SimpleCatcha, and I don't know where ReCaptcha is... Andreas : what Captcha did you use for your own w

Re: [Jmol-developers] Wiki - recent proliferation of abusive new users

2011-03-04 Thread Andreas Prlic
Over at the biojava project we were having a similar problem. Spam comments were added on a daily basis by some bots. The problem stopped instantly once the CAPTCHA plugin for mediawiki got installed. We are still allowing users to create their own accounts, but no more spam since. Andreas 2011/3

Re: [Jmol-developers] Wiki - recent proliferation of abusive new users

2011-03-04 Thread Nicolas Vervelle
2011/3/4 Angel Herráez > El 4 Mar 2011 a las 18:29, Nicolas Vervelle escribió: > > Do you think we should installUser_Merge_and_Deleteto merge the > > spammers account and reduce the list of such accounts ? > > It sounds the reasonable thing, but what I read on the web strongly > advised

Re: [Jmol-developers] Wiki - recent proliferation of abusive new users

2011-03-04 Thread Angel Herráez
El 4 Mar 2011 a las 18:29, Nicolas Vervelle escribió: > Do you think we should installUser_Merge_and_Deleteto merge the > spammers account and reduce the list of such accounts ? It sounds the reasonable thing, but what I read on the web strongly advised not to do so, unless hardly motiva

Re: [Jmol-developers] Wiki - recent proliferation of abusive new users

2011-03-04 Thread Nicolas Vervelle
Forgot to answer to the list also... On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Nicolas Vervelle wrote: > Hi again, > > We should first try installing > ConfirmEdit > and ReCAPTCHA to see > if it's bet