Amit Aronovitch wrote:
>
> 3) My suggestion:
>
> Anonymous (not logged in) users can edit pages after getting a (time
> limited) cookie from
> a "verifycation" page using captcha Images (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha ) - note: it does not have to
> contain any other input fields - no login needed.
> Also - "major"/"main" pages are reserved for logged-in edits only
> (to protect from vandalism).
> Note that this should mostly solve both (1) and (2) above.
>
> If such a system is not already available, it should not be too hard
> to implement, especially in a python-driven CMS.
>
I just noticed that the Gentoo Linux Wiki (
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Main_Page ) is using a method almost identical to
what I describe here, and it's a mediawiki site - same technology as our
wiki.
(one difference I noticed: it's seems a new captcha is displayed on
every edit instead of having a timeout based cookie)
I wonder if we could get some feedback from the site's admins about the
effectiveness of this against wiki-spam (as I said, I believe this
method might be both more open AND more secure).
