Re: [sage-devel] spam content has got through to the Sage wiki

2010-01-21 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi Robert, > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Robert Bradshaw > wrote: > > > >> The single bad account can be deleted. > > Now there is another spammer account with the username Robert. The > spammer has put spam content on the FAQ [1] and

Re: [sage-devel] spam content has got through to the Sage wiki

2010-01-20 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Robert, On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > The single bad account can be deleted. Now there is another spammer account with the username Robert. The spammer has put spam content on the FAQ [1] and the main wiki [2] pages. [1] http://wiki.sagemath.org/faq [2] http:/

Re: [sage-devel] spam content has got through to the Sage wiki

2010-01-20 Thread Craig Citro
> The single bad account can be deleted. Our text captcha system seems to work > well enough--the above doesn't seems to happen very often. It would be nice > if it was on account creation rather than every edit. > +1. (I accidentally typed '+21' at first -- which is probably closer to my real opi

Re: [sage-devel] spam content has got through to the Sage wiki

2010-01-20 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jan 20, 2010, at 3:33 AM, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 06:52:07PM +, David Kirkby wrote: Would it be better to manually create Wiki accounts on demand, rather than let anyone create their own? Create them only when someone when you are confident the person is a seriou

Re: [sage-devel] spam content has got through to the Sage wiki

2010-01-20 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:56:03PM +, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > >>One one could ask a non-obvious question rather than "what is the name > >>of the maths software using python". How about "What is the 10th Word > >>in README.txt ? Then, to get the information, someone has to download > >>250 MB

Re: [sage-devel] spam content has got through to the Sage wiki

2010-01-20 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: One one could ask a non-obvious question rather than "what is the name of the maths software using python". How about "What is the 10th Word in README.txt ? Then, to get the information, someone has to download 250 MB of source code. I suspect most spammers would not bot

Re: [sage-devel] spam content has got through to the Sage wiki

2010-01-20 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 06:52:07PM +, David Kirkby wrote: > Would it be better to manually create Wiki accounts on demand, rather > than let anyone create their own? Create them only when someone when > you are confident the person is a serious Sage user. It has proved useful to us in the past

Re: [sage-devel] spam content has got through to the Sage wiki

2010-01-19 Thread David Kirkby
2010/1/16 Minh Nguyen : > Hi folks, > > A spammer using the wiki username KristyMontero recently deleted > everything on the development wiki page [1]. In its place, the spammer > placed a link to an external site. To see the effect of the spammer's > work, go to the development wiki page and click