[OSGeo-Discuss] Some cialis spam in the wiki...

[Anne Ghisla]

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Dave Patton ha scritto:
> On 2009/07/04 8:00 AM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
>>
>> Anne Ghisla wrote:
>>> Is this enough to avoid such spam? Is't captcha better?
>>> I can have a look at how it can be implemented in user login (I know it
>>> is already active when a user adds external links to a page).
>>
>> Go for it.  If you find instructions, I can enable it.
> 
> There is a MediaWiki Extension for reCaptcha [1]
> http://recaptcha.net/plugins/mediawiki/
> 
> [1]
> http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA

It is already active on new user registration, so maybe part of the spam
comes from human beings :S, then another way to limitate such spam is
ConfirmAccout extension [0], that requires sysops to confirm new users
one by one. This is extra load - but removing spam is extra load as well.

HTH,
best regards,
Anne

[0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount
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