An earlier discussion raised the possibility of using a CAPCHA to
limit spambots from creating random accounts and inserting Spam on the
OOoWiki.
Currently we do not have an overwhelming problem with Spam - but we
are not immune to it. For example, a significant portion of the
~22,000 unused user accounts are spam/bot generated.
A possible CAPCHA solution would be:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ReCAPTCHA
This can be tuned, for example, to only require CAPCHAs for new user
account creation.
Thoughts or comments? Do we want to implement a CAPCHA on the
OOoWiki? Is this a good idea?
If this is not absolutely necessary, I think it will add more difficulty
to our contributors. Editing the wiki should remain as simple as
possible for non English speakers and as accessible as possible too.
There are a lot of possible configurations. As Per suggested, this
CAPCHA could be implemented only on new user registrations (we currently
use only email authentication on new accounts).
Like I said in the original message, we are not overwhelmed by Spam,
but... in the past 6 months, there have been roughly 7000 new user
accounts created (out of currently 22,000 unused accounts in the
database), that have not ever been used (no edits done from those
accounts), and a significant number of these 7000 accounts appear to be
Spam/Bot created. These unused accounts are not causing any harm other
than cluttering up the User Table in the database... adding a CAPCHA
would reduce the number of these auto-generated accounts.
C.
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Clayton Cornell [email protected]
OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead
StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany
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