Dear Community,
I’m thrilled to announce that we’ve found a new way to try to prevent spam
in your Wikibases!
You’ve often reported that many spam accounts were being created on your
Wikis (see this ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T327176> for more
context).
We started looking for an additional security layer to prevent this in the
future, or at least to make it more difficult to get around for spammers.
This is where Questy
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha> comes into play.
QuestyCaptcha can be more effective than either ReCaptcha or HCaptcha,
since it requires a set of questions and answers that you choose to make
them harder to be answered by non-legitimate users.
If you’re suffering from spam account signups, give it a try and let us
know how it goes.
We would love to hear whether it makes your life easier and whether the
number of spam accounts has been reduced with this new feature. Feel free
to use this ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342143> or our other
channels for feedback.
Thanks for being on this journey with us! :-)
Valerie, on behalf of Wikibase Cloud
Valerie Wollinger (She/Her)
Community Communications Manager Wikibase
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