We did okay without captchas, but we are not using MediaWiki, rather phpWiki...it's conceivable that MediaWiki has smarter bots written for it although I do not know.
Simon Hollier wrote: > On 7/18/06, Vassilii Khachaturov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> > Hi Guys, >> > >> > We had to put logins onto the X-Plane SDK wiki - we got spammed pretty >> > hard. Since the auth was put in we've had no problems. >> > >> > *cheers* >> >> I think that this means we could also try to do w/o the captchas first. >> V >> >> > > It turns out that required email confirmation on user accounts before > editing does indeed work and I've turned it on. > > This should solve the problem without resorting to blacklists or captchas. > > Simon > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel -- Scenery Home Page: http://scenery.x-plane.com/ Scenery blog: http://xplanescenery.blogspot.com/ Plugin SDK: http://www.xsquawkbox.net/xpsdk/ Scenery mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
