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Hi Darren,
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Open Biofuel Engine Development Wiki
Hi Darren,
Do you know what's happening with the Open Biofuel Engine Development Wiki? It's been attacked by spam, unfortunately. We'd love to host the content here - do you think the community there would be interested? Also, I'm not sure about the license. --Chriswaterguy 19:32, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
- I don't know how to automate deleting spam bots. You silence the bots, you could perhaps:
- set captcha for all edits with a url, even by registered users, like http://wiki.creativecommons.org/ - not ideal though.
- install Bad Behavior, silently blocking many of the bots. (This works great on WordPress - we haven't tried on MediaWiki yet.)
- If you wanted to go through and delete the bad ones, I can't think of an easy way. You could make up a list of links to user contributions, with the delete link, so you could open each of them more easily. Still lots of work though.
- Something to think about is to actually join up with Appropedia, bring all the pages over, and ask users to register anew here. We've done a lot of this already (about 8 projects of various sizes have come together so far - see Appropedia:A history of collaboration). It will give a much higher profile for your work, and more collaboration. What do you think? --Chriswaterguy 12:03, 29 November 2009 (UTC)