[sword-devel] spam problem with wiki

[DM Smith]

I had not read about "Bad Behavior" before. It looks good and perhaps 
the most transparent. But I don't know if it would prevent some users 
from ever seeing our wiki.

Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp wrote:
> Image CAPTCHA is fine if it's written well. The problem is that if a 
> blind person visits your site, they are locked out.
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#Captcha 
> <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#Captcha>
>
> I still recommend other forms of spam blocking, such as blacklisting.
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#Spam_blacklist 
> <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#Spam_blacklist>
>
> Or the Bad Behavior plugin to MediaWiki:
>
> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/software/bad-behavior/installing-and-using-bad-behavior/on-mediawiki/ 
> <http://www.homelandstupidity.us/software/bad-behavior/installing-and-using-bad-behavior/on-mediawiki/>
>
> On 6/15/07, *Eeli Kaikkonen* <eekaikko at mail.student.oulu.fi 
> <mailto:eekaikko at mail.student.oulu.fi>> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, DM Smith wrote:
>
>     > One of the other techniques is to show an image of text and have the
>     > user accurately enter the text.
>     > This allows anyone to edit anonymously, but not without personally
>     > making the change.
>     > This would prevent bots from spamming the page.
>
>     I was actually thinking about that but didn't know it works with
>     mediawiki, or does it? I think this is better solution.
>
>       Yours,
>             Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland
>             e-mail: eekaikko at mailx.studentx.oulux.fix
>     <mailto:eekaikko at mailx.studentx.oulux.fix> (with no x)
>
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