It will now be re-opened, however all existing pages will remain locked because of the spam bot and vandalism risk.
New pages will be able to be formed however.
This will be an experiment for a short period to see if the spam bot threat is sustainable.
If we get a lot of spam and vandalism in that period it will have to be re-locked.
The experiment has lasted a week, 2 people made 2 new pages, and spam bots are already back and registering and spamming, they come in pairs so work quickly to make new pages and spam.
They make pages with literally hundreds of links to nasty sites.
As I cannot keep checking the wiki all the time, it is having to be locked again to prevent new pages.
If anyone wishes to add to the wiki, please email me and it can be done by prior arrangement.
is there anyway you can ban them from accessing the Wiki or having a plugin to verify that the user is not a bot. Like those boxes of which you enter the letters from a randomly generated image...
Seems a shame for some one wanting to spam this site and many others.
Its a problem on all wikis, plus a human can spam too, it happens a lot on wikipedia, however they have many admin to constantly watch and revert the spam.
I've noticed that in the Wiki page about famous people thought to be autistic Stephen Spielberg is mentioned as definitely being diagnosed. I think a claim like that needs to be backed up with a reference to a published source. As the saying goes; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence.
I wouldn't have placed David Byrne in this category either, unless there is some published credible evidence that he too has been diagnosed. Where's the references? What are the sources?
It ought to be fairly trivial to make a wiki read-only except for authorised people, who only have to ask (or even look on the site) to get a username/password. I would have thought, anyway
As I cannot keep checking the wiki all the time, it is having to be locked again to prevent new pages.
Wikipedia uses a bot to check for vandalism. Couldn't something similar be done here.(i.e.it could look for very short pages with links to exteral sites that didn't have the title in theri body or something.
It ought to be fairly trivial to make a wiki read-only except for authorised people, who only have to ask (or even look on the site) to get a username/password. I would have thought, anyway
Well we tried that and it didn't work, plus people do not read the front of the site and email and ask to be added either.
They rarely email and ask for anything to be added, they simply go to a page, then try and edit it and see that they can't.
But I have come up with another possible solution which I will make a new thread for.
As I cannot keep checking the wiki all the time, it is having to be locked again to prevent new pages.
Wikipedia uses a bot to check for vandalism. Couldn't something similar be done here.(i.e.it could look for very short pages with links to exteral sites that didn't have the title in theri body or something.
They dont make short pages, they make extremely huge pages with 1000's of links.
I've noticed that in the Wiki page about famous people thought to be autistic Stephen Spielberg is mentioned as definitely being diagnosed. I think a claim like that needs to be backed up with a reference to a published source. As the saying goes; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence.
I wouldn't have placed David Byrne in this category either, unless there is some published credible evidence that he too has been diagnosed. Where's the references? What are the sources?
I have been told by someone who met Tony Attwood that he did diagnose him, Tony Attwood also diagnosed Speilberg's son.
I also know someone who is meeting Tony Attwood this week and have asked them to confirm this with him.
David Bryne posted on his own site/blog that he feels he is an aspie.
Amy wrote
I have been told by someone who met Tony Attwood that he did diagnose him, Tony Attwood also diagnosed Speilberg's son.
I also know someone who is meeting Tony Attwood this week and have asked them to confirm this with him.
Many times I've read the rumour that Attwood has self-diagnosed. Is it possible that followers of Attwood tend to be silly, over-excitable types who love to start rumours? If it is indeed true that Atwood had diagnosed the movie director and his son as well, and has told people about this, without the supposed diagnosees having made any similar public declaration, that would appear to me to be a clear case of breach of patient confidentiality, twice over to boot! I think it would be unethical to report such a declaration.
If the section of David Byrne's blog that you referred to is the same as the bit I have read, I don't think it is a clear declaration of self-diagnosis, much less definite than that.
Well the person I know saw Attwood and he said that he diagnosed their son, and Stephen's wife said that she could see the same traits in Stephen herself.
So she 'self-diagnosed' him if you like.
I do not know why Attwood chooses to say that, maybe he has permission and it's not a secret, maybe he thinks honesty is better than hiding things.
I have no qualms about stating some small information about a famous person, but would not give details about a child.
Amy wrote
I have no qualms about stating some small information about a famous person ...
I don't think that stating that a person is diagnosed with AS is "small information".
Do you know of any credible source or journalist's report about this supposed official diagnosis of Spielberg's son? That would at least confirm autism in their family. I'm really interesting in tracking down the source of these rumours about Spielberg. I had suspected that they originated from fanciful press reports about an unpleasant event that happened to their family years ago.
Amy wrote
I have no qualms about stating some small information about a famous person ...
I don't think that stating that a person is diagnosed with AS is "small information".
Do you know of any credible source or journalist's report about this supposed official diagnosis of Spielberg's son? That would at least confirm autism in their family. I'm really interesting in tracking down the source of these rumours about Spielberg. I had suspected that they originated from fanciful press reports about an unpleasant event that happened to their family years ago.
An autism professional is stating it, many others regard it as true, I am saying the same.
If you think it's wrong, so be it. Some think its wrong to think deceased people are an aspie, it could bother relatives, but we do that too.
Compared with all of Spielberg's achievements and what he is famous for, it is small.