Encyclopedia Apologies
Due to continued attacks by automated spam bots, I’ve had to take the Encyclopaedia Brythenica off-line. The normal MediaWiki measures and Captcha system are not sufficient to prevent the commercial postings and I am not in a position to manually administrate the wiki at this time. My thanks to those individuals who attempted to mitigate the spam.
As time and opportunity allows, I may investigate options to correct the problem, but for the moment, I believe this is the best solution to prevent further corruption of the data in the wiki. Thank for your understanding.
Regrettable, but your response is perfectly reasonable.
Thanks, Brandes. I’m glad you understand.
i’m impressed that the bots are able to get around captcha.
Regrettably captcha techniques seem to be failing everywhere. Even folks like Google and Wired are getting hit by captcha-proof spammers. 🙁
If you decide not to pursue the Brythenica project, please consider donating the text to Red Button, eh? As a player I would be sad to see the information lost.
Oh certainly, Jen. In the WORST case scenario, we manually clean out the spam and convert everything to static HTML or Word documents so they aren’t lost to the void.