[Phpmyadmin-devel] Captcha for wiki

[Tyron Madlener]

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Michal Čihař <michal at cihar.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Dne Thu, 7 Jul 2011 16:12:31 +0200
> Michal Čihař <michal at cihar.com> napsal(a):
>
>> Dne Wed, 6 Jul 2011 12:59:43 +0200
>> Tyron Madlener <tyronx at gmail.com> napsal(a):
>>
>> > Just tried creating an account on the pma wiki to add a note about
>> > $.sprintf(), but this captcha is horribly hard to read (and every time
>> > i mistype i have to reenter the password) - can't we replace it with
>> > recaptcha or something?
>>
>> It should be possible to replace it with recaptcha, any strong opinions
>> against it?
>
> Actually looking at
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit#ReCaptcha it might
> not be the best idea:
>
> Unfortunately, reCAPTCHA might be a victim of its own success - as of
> 2011, some spammers appear to have figured out a way to bypass it,
> either through character recognition or by using humans. For that
> reason, it is not necessarily recommended.
>
> Though I'm still open to other opinions.

How about some own anti-spam solution ala
http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2011/03/25/fk-captcha/

Let me know if I can assist with anything. Maybe there's some honeypot
/ timestamp analysis thingy for mediawiki somewhere?

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