[Mediawiki-l] Re: image verification

FxParlant f-x.p at laposte.net
Sun May 29 17:51:22 UTC 2005


Hi Dori,

You are absolutely right Dori, captcha are totaly against the 
disabilities act for webdesigners. The option was also to give a mp3 
solution for the words or letters given in the image.

I haven't got much time yet, but I think we could find a way to 
implement simple questions protection.

I guess your math-captcha will drasticaly increase the arithmetic level 
of teenager posting night long on forums... or it's the death of teenage 
internet :-)

Why not geographic questions too ? :-o)

François



Dori wrote:
> On 5/29/05, Jama Poulsen <jama at debianlinux.net> wrote:
> 
>>On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 12:07:05PM -0400, Myria wrote:
>>
>>>Any suggestions... Well, any suggestions short of filling the server room
>>>with C4, as I'm already contemplating that one, would be welcome...
>>
>>Seeing all these complaints about wikibot spam and bogus accounts,
>>I'm considering using an image verification tool for the account
>>creation process on Wikicompany. Eg. using a short string of digits
>>in image form as acceptable proof of direct human interaction.
>>
>>Has anyone already used an image verification tool with mediawiki?
>>If not, I'll try to setup something like like this, and hope it can be
>>made modular enough to be usable with a mediawiki configuration switch.
>>
>>Then I'll ask for evil-bot detection and good-bot repair tools :)
> 
> 
> I am not sure how many blind people participate on wikis, but why not
> go with a simple [math] question that can be answered easily and
> unambiguously by a person but not by simple bots. I'm not suggesting a
> full blown Turing test, something as simple as "1 plus 1 is ?" Have a
> series of these and throw one out randomly.





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