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

On 09/02/11 00:45, Volker Merschmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2011/2/6 Manuel Schneider<manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch>:
> > Ok, I have restored my SSH key and got the login details from Flo, so I did
> > some checks.
> >
> > User:Peacfata was NOT emailconfirmed!
> >
> > I have removed all the ConfirmEdit stuff from the configuration (an
> > extension I have actually never seen in action before) and have instead put
> > quite simple user privilege settings in place of which I know that they are
> > working.
> >
> > Let's test these first before installing a captcha.
> >
> > As said we have been using reCaptcha before, but as far as I am concerned we
> > have removed it from all our wikis a few years ago and we felt no need for
> > it to come back yet.
> We should reconsider this, as Sophie just had to delete spam pages
> from fresh registered users again.
>
> Sophie told me by IRC: "for one of the page you mentionned the user
> was (User creation log); 11:17:10 . . Xeniste (Talk | contribs |
> block) New user account and the page was created at 14:54:12"
>
> If there are other possibilities in tuning the site, please try. But
> we can't go on deleting that number of pages per day, that time could
> be used better.
>
> Bye
>
> Volker
I don't believe there is any way to prevent spam entirely, but using 
Re/Captcha is a good step to weeding out a lot of the simple spammers.

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