Francis Tyers writes: > Hello all, > > I'd like to get some feedback on introducing a system of requesting > accounts on the Apertium Wiki. At the moment, in order to get an account > and edit pages, a user must: > > * fill out the registration form > * write a Captcha > * respond to an automated email. > > Even with the Captcha and automated email, we still get around 5-10 spam > pages a day, and 10-20 spam accounts. Aside from having to delete these > pages and block the users, this also fills up the RecentChanges. > > There is an extension[1] for MediaWiki which requires every account to > be approved before being created. This is against the principles of > Wiki, but would reduce work for the Wiki admins who are deleting the > pages (at the moment mostly me, Unhammer and Bernard). > > What do people think ?
I have had success using databases like StopForumSpam to check new registrations and users making their first edit. This largely stopped botspam in its tracks on message boards I have run in the past (dramatic difference between dozens of posts to clean up daily versus one or two weekly). -- Anthony J. Bentley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. A cloud service to automate IT design, transition and operations 2. Dashboards that offer high-level views of enterprise services 3. A single system of record for all IT processes http://p.sf.net/sfu/servicenow-d2d-j _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
