On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:32:45 -0500, Evan Prodromou wrote:
"TS" == Tim Starling ts4294967296@hotmail.com writes:
>> Here's one idea -- a switch to toggle a captcha.That's an extremely good idea. Only one problem: I believe that there are patent issues around captchas. Not saying that Wikipedia couldn't get a patent license, but it'd have to stay out of the distributed MediaWiki code.
I'm not sure about this and I'm not turning up any terribly informative Google hits except this one:
http://www2.parc.com/istl/projects/captcha/history.htm
~ESP
Hello,
Although it's a good idea to prevent vandalism, it will also block harmless block that solve disambiguation, correct typos, convert html tables to wiki tables, updates interwikis ...
Since the migration end of 2002, our bot made more than 30 000 edits out of the 300 000 (considering oldid in #frrc).
cheers,