[Opensim-dev] Wiki: Captcha, anyone?

[Nebadon Izumi]

btw I have confirmedit installed on OSgrid wiki, its totally worthless!

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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