You can try ReCaptcha but I found that questy captcha works really well. I just ask the
user a really dumb question like where is Tokyo?
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From: Daniel Barrett <danb(a)VistaPrint.com>
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 9:57 AM
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] CAPTCHA recommendation for account-creation bots?
Spam bots are creating accounts on my music wiki
(
http://www.blazemonger.com/GG/Special:RecentChanges). What is the best extension to
prevent this? I installed ConfirmEdit and tried the default CAPTCHA (SimpleCAPTCHA) but it
didn't stop the bots. Before I experiment with the many other options, I thought
I'd ask what people recommend.
Fortunately the bots can't edit articles, just create useless accounts.
Thanks,
DanB
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