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

[Johannes Schindelin]

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