"Sent via BlackBerry from Smart" -----Original Message----- From: "Daniel Friesen" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:23:25 To: [email protected]<[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected], MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] CAPTCHA recommendation for account-creation bots?
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:19:48 -0800, Frank Ralf <[email protected]> wrote: >> Before I experiment with the many other options, I thought I'd ask what >> people recommend. > > Hi Dan, > > I don't have any experience with MediaWiki antispam solutions but with > Drupal I use http://drupal.org/project/spamicide: "Spamicide adds an > input field to each form then hides it with css, when spam bots fill in > the field the form is discarded." > > That's not only much more userfriendly as it doesn't require any extra > effort from the user but quite effectiv for preventing spam. I shouldn't > be to difficult to use the same mechanism in an extension. > > hth > Frank We have that too: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleAntiSpam But if the bot is smart enough to register for accounts and handle captchas, it might not be easily tripped up by such a simple measure. -- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] _______________________________________________ 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
