Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-03-20 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote: On Tuesday 19 March 2013 09:30:13 M.-A. Lemburg wrote: I've added a new set of textchas to the Python wiki. Thanks to both of you for configuring the wiki and improving the textcha questions. This makes it a lot

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-03-20 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 19.03.2013 09:14, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: On 18.03.2013 19:58, Paul Boddie wrote: On Monday 18 March 2013 19:00:37 Radomir Dopieralski wrote: On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote: Hello, We're getting a fair amount of spam on the Python Wiki. Can someone with

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-03-20 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 20.03.2013 09:44, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: On 19.03.2013 09:14, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: On 18.03.2013 19:58, Paul Boddie wrote: On Monday 18 March 2013 19:00:37 Radomir Dopieralski wrote: On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote: Hello, We're getting a fair amount

Re: [pydotorg-www] Looking for good textcha ideas (was: Python Wiki Spam)

2013-03-20 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
In order to protect our wikis against excessive spam, we are using textchas (short questions and answers) which users have to answer before they can commit their changes or sign up to the sites. I found that short Python snippet work well, since they require domain knowledge that you cannot

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-03-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 20, 2013, at 10:08 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: If we can't get things under control, we will have to start using such a group and disable public editing of pages :-( FWIW, we've long had this policy on the Mailman wiki. It was the only successful way to control spam. Sign up is open (and