Dear all,
the ccp4 users' wiki at
http://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/ccp4wiki/index.php/Main_Page
was, during the last couple of days, the target of some wiki
abuse/vandalism. To clear the mess, we deleted those newly-produced
articles containing advertising links, and removed the fake users.
Yesterday we had to stop creation of new user accounts. On Tue, we'll
re-enable it to see what happens.
Furthermore, we protect user creation now with a "captcha" mechanism
which should be effective against bots - but unfortunately there seem to
be people behind these efforts so this is not 100% effective against the
current attack (it does slow down, though).
In addition, we might in the future enable the "captcha" mechanism for
those edits which insert new outside URLs into existing articles.
In summary, _reading_ the wiki is still possible, but creating new user
accounts (which is necessary if you have never before created/edited an
article in the wiki) is currently suspended and will be re-enabled in
the near future - but with a captcha.
Sorry for the inconvenience for new users!
Kay
