On Jan 11, 2008 11:33 AM, Gabriel Millerd gmillerd@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 10, 2008 9:43 PM, Adam Meyer meyer7@mindspring.com wrote:
My wiki ( www.risdpedia.net ) has been under fierce attack by spam in the past week, and normally I would do the normal stuff to combat it, but my wiki is a little different. The people who use the site are anything but computer savvy, so I cant have them doing the captua thing, or even confirm edit. I even had to hide the login/create account at the top page because people thought that meant they had to create an account, and it was too much work. ( I know, I know).
So the spammers just use your homebrew /interface/ free for all page article construction CGI / mechanism. Its a shame that people cannot create an account, your work flow is pretty on target. You could always take your custom workflow and queue it similar to a mailing list and have the articles moderated.
-- Gabriel Millerd
Have you tried the SpamBlacklist extension? It's the only thing I can think of with no real impact on usability.
If that doesn't work, consider implementing the CAPTCHA very selectively: For instance, you could set it to trigger only when an unregistered user adds a link to a page, and when registering. Surely any of your legitimate users who are sophisticated enough to add links would be able to deal with the CAPTCHA?