Image CAPTCHA is fine if it's written well. The problem is that if a blind person visits your site, they are locked out.<br><br><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#Captcha">http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#Captcha
</a><br><br>I still recommend other forms of spam blocking, such as blacklisting.<br><br><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#Spam_blacklist">http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#Spam_blacklist
</a><br><br>Or the Bad Behavior plugin to MediaWiki:<br><br><a href="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/
</a><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eeli Kaikkonen</b> <<a href="mailto:eekaikko@mail.student.oulu.fi">eekaikko@mail.student.oulu.fi</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, DM Smith wrote:<br><br>> One of the other techniques is to show an image of text and have the<br>> user accurately enter the text.<br>> This allows anyone to edit anonymously, but not without personally
<br>> making the change.<br>> This would prevent bots from spamming the page.<br><br>I was actually thinking about that but didn't know it works with<br>mediawiki, or does it? I think this is better solution.<br>
<br> Yours,<br> Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland<br> e-mail: <a href="mailto:eekaikko@mailx.studentx.oulux.fix">eekaikko@mailx.studentx.oulux.fix</a> (with no x)<br><br>_______________________________________________
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