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-----Original Message----- From: "Daniel Friesen" lists@nadir-seen-fire.com Sender: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:23:25 To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.orgmediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Reply-To: daniel@nadir-seen-fire.com, MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] CAPTCHA recommendation for account-creation bots?
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:19:48 -0800, Frank Ralf Frank.Ralf@gmx.net wrote:
Before I experiment with the many other options, I thought I'd ask what people recommend.
Hi Dan,
I don't have any experience with MediaWiki antispam solutions but with Drupal I use http://drupal.org/project/spamicide: "Spamicide adds an input field to each form then hides it with css, when spam bots fill in the field the form is discarded."
That's not only much more userfriendly as it doesn't require any extra effort from the user but quite effectiv for preventing spam. I shouldn't be to difficult to use the same mechanism in an extension.
hth Frank
We have that too: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleAntiSpam
But if the bot is smart enough to register for accounts and handle captchas, it might not be easily tripped up by such a simple measure.