On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, Decibel! wrote:
> Well, at the bare minimum we need a captcha or something similar.
> Without that then yes, we're going to get all kinds of crap accounts.
> Do we just have that turned off, or does mediawiki actually not support
> that?
There are a couple of levels of captcha you can setup. For example, one
wiki I work on a regularly allows edits by any account as soon as it's
created. But if you add a reference to a URL that's outside of the Wiki
itself, committing that edit requires completing a captcha (where the data
you type is a combination of two common words appearing in the wiki).
This makes it so anyone can add regular content almost instantly, but
since the spammers can't automate linking to their sites it makes them
less likely to target you.
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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD