Just a word of wisdom on the capchtas The reason they do not work 100% of the time is that the spam is not a bot, but an actual person doing this. Sometimes paid per broken captcha.
Making it hard enough to stop spam often means making it too hard for legitimate users as well. I for one have a very hard time with them. Often taking me 3-4 tries to get it right on the more complex ones. On Jun 19, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Eric K wrote: > Thank you both. I had forgotten about the configuration settings for Confirm > Edit which I do have installed.They also had the code for "check for new > links", so I'll look at it if I go that route. > For now I just changed the capctcha to a slightly more difficult one, in > ConfirmEdit. > > > > --- On Sat, 6/18/11, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Platonides <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Simple anti-spam check? > To: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, June 18, 2011, 6:05 PM > > > Eric K wrote: >> Does anyone know how I can detect whether a user has inserted a website link >> in the revision of the text that was submitted? I know how to check their >> age. >> My idea for this extension it: If a new user submits a link, they'll be >> asked to instead use the talk page. > > You can configure AbuseFilter for that, or use ConfirmEdit to force them > solve a captcha when adding links. > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
