[Opensim-dev] Wiki: Captcha, anyone?

[Volker Gaessler]

I had a ton of spam on the whisper wiki, about 100 entries per day. I had to
take it to moderated mode and tried a number of different Captchas I ended
up with the Google Captcha service and now I am down to one spam entry per
week.

 

Cheers

 

Volker

 

From: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de
[mailto:opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Nebadon Izumi
Sent: Mittwoch, 12. Oktober 2011 09:17
To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Wiki: Captcha, anyone?

 

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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