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8:54 am
January 6, 2010


Luke Maurits

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The Wiki has been hit fairly hard by spambots recently, which are replacing entire articles (thankfully not common or important ones) with gibberish and hyperlinks.

Disabling anonymous edits will probably be an acceptable immediate countermeasure but before too long after that we will probably see the bots registering accounts.

Rizwan, do you know of any changes to the Wiki settings we could make to help prevent this?

Main CLLARE workgroups: Mission Planning, Navigation and Guidance. I do maths, physics, C, Python and Java.

8:29 pm
January 6, 2010


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Is it possible to have accounts so that only administrators can approve new members? The number of new editors will never reach the point where it is a burden to approve them.

Main Workgroups: Propulsion & Spacecraft Engineering

2:19 am
January 7, 2010


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Post edited 8:20 am – January 7, 2010 by Rizwan


I have added the reCAPTCHA plugin. Lets see how it works.

The current settings are.

  1. Any user can edit the wiki, because registration puts people off.
  2. Unregistered users are always presented with a captcha.
  3. Registration requires a captcha.
  4. Registered users are never presented with a captcha.

2:29 am
January 7, 2010


Rizwan

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Also changed the link structure of the Wiki

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