Benjamin L.Russell wrote:
Why not ask new users to identify letters in a random bitmapped image
of a string, as is commonly done? Then any new user who still
registers and starts submitting spam can be tracked and moderated.
If this doesn't work out we can always use hackage's approach: have
Henning Thielemann wrote:
How long will the Wiki account registration be disabled? Would it be
possible to ask a question, that real Haskellers could easily answer,
but a spambot cannot? E.g. What's Haskell's surname?
It will be re-enabled when an appropriate extension to MediaWiki is
Henning Thielemann lemm...@henning-thielemann.de wrote:
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Benjamin L.Russell wrote:
Why not ask new users to identify letters in a random bitmapped
image of a string, as is commonly done?
I assume, because those images are
1) not accessible by blind people
2)
On 14 Mar 2009, at 10:20, Ashley Yakeley wrote:
We will have a more up-to-date distribution when a new machine takes
over from the existing machine at Yale.
I don't know when anyone will have a new machine.
The contract with Yale for running the haskell.org machine is due for
its yearly
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Benjamin L.Russell wrote:
Why not ask new users to identify letters in a random bitmapped image
of a string, as is commonly done?
I assume, because those images are
1) not accessible by blind people
2) can be decoded by spammers, since they know how the images are
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:31:49 +0100 (CET), Henning Thielemann
lemm...@henning-thielemann.de wrote:
How long will the Wiki account registration be disabled? Would it be
possible to ask a question, that real Haskellers could easily answer, but
a spambot cannot? E.g. What's Haskell's surname?
As long as one is implementing a CAPTCHA, the reCAPTCHA [1] is my
humble suggestion, I have no idea how the haskellwiki is implemented or
how easy this is to implement, but I imagine it couldn't be _that_ hard.
/Joe
[1] http://recaptcha.net/
Benjamin L.Russell wrote:
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009
