>> Luigi: >> As far as my own experience goes chaptchas are not a 100% solution. >> Yet they are effective and helped me to almost completely stop wild >> "edit" spam by bots on a couple of open (no password protected) wikis.
> Radu: > there already is a captcha implementation in the cookbook. > Did you test it and it didn't work?? If so, please provide details Well, my English is poor and I probably did not explain well: a) captcha *are* effective. b) pmwiki captcha already *did* work for me in stopping spam, twice. I just wanted to let people know that there is an "extension" to our simple captcha: instead of forcing people to solve "infertile" puzzles, one can feed real small problems (in this case, text scanned from old books) and use the process in an useful way.[1] As a bonus, some extra features, like audio-captcha, would also come for free. While such a widget wouldn't fit any site, I guess it could be a please for many to consider it. For this reason I submitted it to the community. And, if Dave will make it into a recipe (which I couldn't do for a lack of skill) that would be nice (thanks Dave!). Luigi ---------- [1] Nothing new under the sun, and many power tools have been built on random distributed small tasks, as an example https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
