[Opensim-dev] Wiki: Captcha, anyone?

[Nebadon Izumi]

I have the same problem on the OSgrid wiki and have not been able to
overcome it, mediawiki sucks its absolutely horrible, none of the fixes that
i have found seem to work, if you do figure this out please let me know.  I
had to disable login to the OSgrid wiki because of this, it became to much
work to keep the wiki clean, it was nothing but giberish too not one single
spam post made any bit of sense.  it got past captcha and just about ever so
called "Security" fix for mediawiki, i could never stop it!!

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Fritigern Gothly <
fritigerngothly at gmail.com> wrote:

> Almost every day, Justin, Makopoppo and I have to delete spam from the
> wiki, and lately, we have seen a steady increase of the amount of spam
> that pops up on the wiki.
> I would therefore like to propose installing the ConfirmEdit extension
> on the OpenSim wiki, which will present the user with a captcha when
> the newly added text contains an external link.
> I do believe that requiring decoding a captcha when a newly added text
> contains an external link will dramatically decrease the number of
> successful spamming attempts on the wiki.
> To regular users, a captcha may be a minor inconvenience, in that they
> will have to perform one additional, but small, step before their text
> is published. For spammers however, it will be a hindrance, because
> they will no longer be able to use an automated process to sign up,
> and post their spam.
>
> More infor on the extension:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit
>
> -- Friti
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Michael Emory Cerquoni - Nebadon Izumi @ http://osgrid.org
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