Re: [libreoffice-website] CAPTCHA to subscribe to the wiki?

Hi,

2011/2/6 drew <drew@baseanswers.com>:
> On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 13:47 +0100, Volker Merschmann wrote:
> > 2011/2/6 Florian Effenberger <floeff@documentfoundation.org>:
> > > Michael Wheatland wrote on 2011-02-06 13.16:
> > > > reCaptcha has good accessibility access as it also allows for the
> > > > generated passcode to be read aloud via audio.
> > > > http://www.google.com/recaptcha
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have any issue with implementing reCaptcha?
> > >
> > > Manuel, do you know of any goot Captcha software and other measurements to
> > > protect from spamming? Seems we're suffering from spam, although e-mail
> > > verification is mandatory before editing pages.
> > I remember that wiki.services.openoffice.org also got it's Captcha
> > last year when the spam got to mouch.
> > Maybe we can look over there and see what Clayton installed.
> > It did not solve the problem to zero but to a manageable number.
>
> One more piece of information here - there is a new trend i spam, it is
> showing up on lots of forums and I believe in this case wikis also and
> that is to only register an account with the service (forum/wik) when
> the profile for that service allows a URL for your personal website, and
> then to start using Twitter to point to your personal profile page on
> that site - this one is a real pain and OOoForum for instance has been
> hit hard by it.
>
> It is fairly new, last couple of years, and I don't really know how it
> is working for their goal, to get the link into the search engines, but
> since it is rising perhaps it works..anyway, just to let you know.
I made a dig in my mailarchive and found at that at OOo reCaptcha is
used in combination with a Bad-behaviour-script
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Bad_Behavior

Volker

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