Jamie's answers are generally awesome (as is the Foreground skin), and
hopefully this ends some spam for some time. As for the discussion on
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/80188
the problem is, as always with Mediawiki, the software's goals are too tied
to Wikipedia (which is understandable, but a problem for those using it
outside of it) and my fear is as Wikipedia goes so goes Mediawiki. If
captcha is removed from Wikipedia I could see a future were the support for
ConfirmEdit dies, which effectively would kill Mediawiki's effectiveness as
a good software package. Maybe my fear is unfounded, but the shadow of
Wikipedia is very, very large.
I would rather Wikipedia, and Mediawiki, add support for some more
interesting approaches to captcha. See:
http://www.josscrowcroft.com/demos/motioncaptcha/ (not in production yet,
but an interesting captcha answer).
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/80188>
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Mark A. Hershberger <mah(a)nichework.com>
wrote:
Tom <tom(a)hutch4.us> writes:
I've seen registrations climbing again, 20-30
a day. I've considered
randomizing the output of the order with a mix of images of the
position names with actual text.
Most wikis don't have the benefit of a large, active user base filled
with monitors like Wikipedia does, of course, but people thinking about
captcha's should know that this came up today on wikitech-l:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/80188
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Mark A. Hershberger
NicheWork LLC
717-271-1084
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