I have a simple, 100% effective way of dealing with spambots: change the login page. (Oh yes -- this only works if you restrict edits to logged in users.)
On http://www.IslandSeeds.org/wiki, I wanted to get first and last names, so I hacked that page to include the extra field, and added it to the database schema, and changed the username function so that it concatenated those two fields.
This wiki is fairly well known and linked, and yet, NEVER gets hit by spambots. I think they get confused about the login requirements.
This suggests that doing something as trivial as changing the NAME attribute of either the username or password field may frustrate spambots.
But what I REALLY want is an email or Turing authentication scheme. Is that in 1.5, or coming down the road?
:::: Any sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from irony. -- Erik Naggum :::: Jan Steinman http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Item/85AE31
On 9/3/05, Jan Steinman Jan@bytesmiths.com wrote:
But what I REALLY want is an email or Turing authentication scheme. Is that in 1.5, or coming down the road?
No, it's not in the plan for 1.5 as I understand it. I'm running a release candidate and such stuff isn't in there. It might be planned for a later release, but it seems that this sort of thing is lower priority being not "wiki like". =/
There is a function to make logins only administrator-creatable, where the administrator could have the system email the would-be user their login name and password. This is the only thorough thing I can think of.
I don't know what you are talking about.
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From: Sy Ali Date: 09/04/05 14:22:21 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Re: Vandalism, but then they corrected it?
On 9/3/05, Jan Steinman Jan@bytesmiths.com wrote:
But what I REALLY want is an email or Turing authentication scheme. Is that in 1.5, or coming down the road?
No, it's not in the plan for 1.5 as I understand it. I'm running a release candidate and such stuff isn't in there. It might be planned for a later release, but it seems that this sort of thing is lower priority being not "wiki like". =/
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