Markus: > > > Would it help to enable a captcha? Hamish: > > Yes. It would help solve our current problem of creation of fake accounts. M: > > > What about http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit ? H: > > Looks good! M: > We tried it yesterday, but it enabled only the Chinese version. > We didn't manage to enforce English or even what the browser > says (mine definitely doesn't send "zh"). So we had to remove it.
?! hmph. An idea- my Debian/sarge box once installed a bunch of Chinese versions automatically. It turned out the problem was that the package relied on a meta-package which could be fulfilled by a number of language specific packages. So it installed the first language package on the list, which was Chinese, and hilarity ensued. IIRC we had a similar problem with the Debian GRASS package which depends on "xterm | x-terminal-emulator". In the past we just depended on "x-terminal-emulator" which could pull in something other than xterm that provided x-terminal-emulator, and hilarity ensued. (?) also for ConfirmEdit "The current version(s) require PHP5; for PHP4-compatible versions, use an older version available in the SVN." ? taken from SVN? I see that ConfirmEdit.i18n.php has had many edits in the last 3 weeks. too late for me tonight, but they have an IRC channel for support- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#I_have_a_question_not_answered_here._Where_do_I_go_next.3F I would like to keep working on this problem. H: > > Here is another MediaWiki captcha plugin to look at: > > http://recaptcha.net/plugins/mediawiki/ M: > "(note that this plugin only works with MediaWiki 1.8 or newer)." > -> we have 1.6.x. ah. > > The official MediaWiki page uses a couple of plugins: ("Other" section) .. > Not sure how much Newuserlog helps if it isn't automated. > but it would be easier to trac the subscriptions. OK, added: nice. > I am rather surprised not to be able to simply block certain email > addresses from ever subscribing. Mailman does have this feature ("ban"). > Strange. Banning by IP isn't really helpful here. I guess a request upstream is in order. It must happen to others sites too. > Anyway, I can wipe out this subscribe bot easily now (and regularly do). Yea, but it is still an unneeded waste of time & energy so finding an automated solution would be better in the long run. cheers, Hamish ____________________________________________________________________________________ Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. http://sims.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
