I would hope that if a captcha system were added to MediaWiki, it would
be strictly optional?
I have concerns about accessibility, and a captcha use would actually be
illegal in some installations.
~Terry
Rik Wade wrote:
A captcha system is a much needed extension for
MediaWiki, so thanks to
those working on it. My experience so far with automated or "undesirable"
edits is that they could be stopped by turning off anonymous edits and
using a captcha system for user registration.
Is it anticipated to use the MediaWiki captcha extension for all edits, or
will the option be available to use them only for user registration? I
understand that security comes at a price in terms of usability, but
entering a captcha string for every edit may be too cumbersome for
prolific editors.
How about having a 'level of trust', where certain users can be flagged to
bypass the captcha system for their edits? Therefore, new editors will
need to input a captcha string for each edit, but those who have been
flagged by the admins will not need to do so? I suppose this would work
for small Wikis, but not for anything as busy as Wikipedia.