Jamie's answers are generally awesome (as is the Foreground skin), and hopefully this ends some spam for some time. As for the discussion on http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/80188 the problem is, as always with Mediawiki, the software's goals are too tied to Wikipedia (which is understandable, but a problem for those using it outside of it) and my fear is as Wikipedia goes so goes Mediawiki. If captcha is removed from Wikipedia I could see a future were the support for ConfirmEdit dies, which effectively would kill Mediawiki's effectiveness as a good software package. Maybe my fear is unfounded, but the shadow of Wikipedia is very, very large.
I would rather Wikipedia, and Mediawiki, add support for some more interesting approaches to captcha. See: http://www.josscrowcroft.com/demos/motioncaptcha/ (not in production yet, but an interesting captcha answer). http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/80188
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Mark A. Hershberger mah@nichework.com wrote:
Tom tom@hutch4.us writes:
I've seen registrations climbing again, 20-30 a day. I've considered randomizing the output of the order with a mix of images of the position names with actual text.
Most wikis don't have the benefit of a large, active user base filled with monitors like Wikipedia does, of course, but people thinking about captcha's should know that this came up today on wikitech-l: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/80188
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