[Phpmyadmin-devel] Captcha for wiki

[Tyron Madlener]

2011/7/7 Tyron Madlener <tyronx at gmail.com>:
> 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?
>

There's also seems other solutions than using a captcha on the
mediawiki site: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam

>>
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