[Phpmyadmin-devel] Captcha for wiki

Tyron Madlener tyronx at gmail.com
Thu Jul 7 17:03:23 CEST 2011


On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Michal Čihař <michal at cihar.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Dne Thu, 7 Jul 2011 17:35:14 +0300
> Tyron Madlener <tyronx at gmail.com> napsal(a):
>
>> 2011/7/7 Tyron Madlener <tyronx at gmail.com>:
>> > 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?
>
> I have not found any so far. Also I don't know much of MediaWiki
> internals to implement such solution.
>
>> There's also seems other solutions than using a captcha on the
>> mediawiki site: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam
>
> Well, we were using most of them. I've added using DNS blacklist and
> changed captcha to SimpleCaptcha, which should be quite easy to solve.
> Let's see how it will work with spammers.

Cool thanks, signing up now :D

If too many spammers get through, I'll look into the mediawiki code
and see if I can implement something quick.

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