On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Simon wrote:
libocacnoc
might be spam, although it makes no sense to me...
Whether or not it makes sense is not the point. The problem is that is
rapidly impacts a lot of pages
Thinking some more on it, I don't think it is spam... Could be some kind
of defacing, or preparations to spam/deace. Or, unfortunately and
extremely unlikely, maybe some actually wants to put these "words" on wiki
pages. I can't imagine why though. Maybe it's an alien and it makes sense
to "it" ;-) .. or maybe it's a person that somehow has a good reason...
Generally speaking we _want_ everybody to be able to change the content.
What is it that we don't want? For instance, we don't want:
* Spam
* Content being destroyed
* Defacement
* ?
However, I don't think captchas is a proper solution as I think it is
_valid_ that a script/program modifies a wiki page. A simple example of
this is when I use Emacs to edit wiki pages (pmwiki-mode)... then it's
Emacs rather than a browser that does the change. And within Emacs, it's
easy for me (and _very_ useful) to create a macro that does a similiar
modification to many pages... Introducing captchas would make this
unpractical to say the least :-(
Maybe what we need is editorial control over certain pages instead?
Or perhaps that they are saved as drafts until someone (anyone?) approves
the changes?
I don't have any solutions, just a caution that we don't introduce any
captchas or similarly as a _permanent_ "solution".
Best regards,
Christian
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
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