[Opensim-dev] Wiki: Captcha, anyone?

[Rob Nelson]

On MediaWiki, you can tell reCaptcha to show the captcha when links are
being posted.  In fact, I beleive it is the default behavior.  If you're
getting a ton of spam and have few volunteers, here's a few suggestions:

The following will force all groups, except for sysops and bots, to show the
captcha:

$wgGroupPermissions['user'         ]['skipcaptcha'] =
false;$wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['skipcaptcha'] = false;

If you want to manually confirm users, make a new group and add it to
skipcaptcha.

In addition, adding a recent-changes channel for the wiki allows
vandal-fighting tools like VandalFighter to connect and show changes in
real-time to your volunteers, in addition to volunteers themselves.

Installing patrolling extensions can also help.

Adding a blacklisting extension can allow you to automatically block people
who post certain patterns.

Hope this helps.

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Nebadon Izumi <nebadon2025 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I could have sworn editing and creating posts made you do captcha also on
> OpenSimulator.org, i remember having to do it when i was posting the Tuesday
> meeting chat logs.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Dave Coyle <hello at coyled.com> wrote:
>
>> On Oct 12, 2011, at 8:33 AM, Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
>> > coyled has manfully volunteered to help out with opensimulator.orgmaintenance, so if we ask him nicely (or if he's listening :) he might be
>> able to install this or maybe recommend something else (such as the Google
>> captch Volker mentioned).
>>
>> I'll take a look at this tonight.  Account creation currently has
>> reCaptcha enabled, so if the spammers are creating new accounts they're
>> already getting past that.  I'll also take a look at email verification for
>> new accounts and some of the other options.
>>
>> -coyled
>>
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