On 5/29/05, Jama Poulsen <jama(a)debianlinux.net> wrote:
On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 12:07:05PM -0400, Myria
wrote:
Any suggestions... Well, any suggestions short of
filling the server room
with C4, as I'm already contemplating that one, would be welcome...
Seeing all these complaints about wikibot spam and bogus accounts,
I'm considering using an image verification tool for the account
creation process on Wikicompany. Eg. using a short string of digits
in image form as acceptable proof of direct human interaction.
Has anyone already used an image verification tool with mediawiki?
If not, I'll try to setup something like like this, and hope it can be
made modular enough to be usable with a mediawiki configuration switch.
Then I'll ask for evil-bot detection and good-bot repair tools :)
I am not sure how many blind people participate on wikis, but why not
go with a simple [math] question that can be answered easily and
unambiguously by a person but not by simple bots. I'm not suggesting a
full blown Turing test, something as simple as "1 plus 1 is ?" Have a
series of these and throw one out randomly.