[libreoffice-website] Re: [Wiki] Signup Captcha enabled

Hi Florian

Le 2012-10-10 16:14, Florian Effenberger a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> Marc Paré wrote on 2012-10-10 12:55:
> > How many moderators are there? What is the average number of real non
> > spam signups per month, it can't be that high. Plus the people who
> > signup would need a reason to want to signup, which would be one of the
> > questions a moderator would ask.
>
> I received word that the QuestyCaptcha should be a very good solution to
> the problem: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha
>
> So, if we come up with some senseful questions that interested users can
> answer, but bots cannot, this might be an easy way out.
>
> Otherwise, I think we have about 10-20 wiki admins, but can easily add
> more. However, I really would like to have the entry barrier as low as
> possible, so if we switch to manual account creation, we should only
> refuse those looking like spam.
>
> Another idea I could investigate is to simply delete all
> non-emailconfirmed users, which might be doable with a simple database
> query...
>
> Florian

I am just suggesting that if we do go to manual account creation, 
requests for wiki access are for contribution only. So, it would be easy 
to identify spam request through a simple email question to the person 
involved asking them why they would need access. From what I see on the 
wiki, there is not that much contribution going on, so, there must not 
be that many legitimate account creation requests. So, it should be easy 
to identify legitimate requests.

Are there enough moderators for the NL groups if we were to go to manual 
account signups?

Just thought I would also pass this on, on one of my sites, the best 
captcha I had was an account creation question that just asked for 
people to type earlymusicnews backwards and I would change the word 
every 3-4 months. My spam was reduced to practically 0 overnight. I 
guess it just wasn't worthwhile for spammers to work it out by hand. I 
think I once read that there was a certain amount of seconds a spammer 
would attempt to create and account and that after this it was no longer 
profitable to work at it. Anyway, it seemed to work for me.

Cheers,

Marc
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