[Mediawiki-l] Decreasing vandalism

[Dave Sigafoos]

Thanks for both 'captcha' name and for the link

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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Ian Smith
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:47
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Decreasing vandalism

Dave Sigafoos:
> 
> For a 'valid' id, are there any plans to have an 'image' that the user
> has to enter the word.  Many systems are using this method for weeding
> out machine generated user requests.

It's called a "captcha", and there's an extension to do this:

	http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit

I think this currently works for edits, not user creation.

Ian

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