-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dave Patton ha scritto: > On 2009/07/04 8:00 AM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: >> >> Anne Ghisla wrote: >>> Is this enough to avoid such spam? Is't captcha better? >>> I can have a look at how it can be implemented in user login (I know it >>> is already active when a user adds external links to a page). >> >> Go for it. If you find instructions, I can enable it. > > There is a MediaWiki Extension for reCaptcha [1] > http://recaptcha.net/plugins/mediawiki/ > > [1] > http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA
It is already active on new user registration, so maybe part of the spam comes from human beings :S, then another way to limitate such spam is ConfirmAccout extension [0], that requires sysops to confirm new users one by one. This is extra load - but removing spam is extra load as well. HTH, best regards, Anne [0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpQpEgACgkQzZ3g4YwFFgYQdQCeOLbrsKKFoiTxK5oz9H9Hhkm4 DWkAoIzpVusGZEklVs/25eJiq3J56ln9 =AZ9s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss