https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49860

--- Comment #27 from [email protected] ---
(In reply to comment #21)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > Portuguese Wikipedia already used CAPTCHA that way for five years. It was
> > removed in April (see bug 41745) as it was said a community decision was
> > necessary to keep it.
> 
> (In reply to comment #19)
> > And, to make this perfectly clear, almost everyone commented that their
> > support to turn captcha on was only until some other - better - way to avoid
> > vandalisms was found.
> 
> Hi.
> 
> Can one of you please provide examples of edits that you want to prevent?
> What
> edits would you like to stop that you believe adding a CAPTCHA will prevent?
> Please provide as many examples as you would like. The more examples you can
> provide, the better feedback you can get, I think. There are a number of
> developers actively watching this bug report. :-)
> 
> I think we should focus on the types of edits you want to prevent (the
> problem)
> rather than focusing on adding a CAPTCHA (a proposed solution).
> 
> And for what it's worth, a wiki can easily disable or deter edits by
> anonymous
> users by using [[w:pt:MediaWiki:Titleblacklist]] or
> [[w:pt:Special:AbuseFilter]]. Though you can't use the AbuseFilter to force a
> CAPTCHA (yet: bug 18110).

I'm trying to ascertain if there is anyone in our community who knows how to
implement those suggestions. Aparently, "easily" means something different down
here...

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