[Labs-l] Spam issues on labs sites

[Ryan Lane]

>  When mw admins on #mediawiki ask about help with spam on their wikis (wikis
> they installed),
> i usually recommend to use ConfirmEdit
> (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit) and within that
> framework
> extension then use "Asirra" as the actual captcha. Asirrra is the Microsoft
> "cats or dogs" captcha.
>
> http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/asirra/
>

On the tesla cluster we used recaptcha. I'm pretty sure our policies
actually forbid using any outside captchas, though.

We should work on getting the IRC stuff working. The thing that's
lacking right now is that the script they need is in the private repo,
because it's littered with passwords.

- Ryan