On 14/11/13 20:52, Nathan Larson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org>wrote:
> 
>> On 10/11/13 03:57, Nathan Larson wrote:
>>> Also, we have other antispam tools that are way more effective than
>>> nofollow at deterring spam.
>>
>> Like what? AbuseFilter is unusable for small wikis, SpamBlacklist is
>> poorly maintained, and FancyCaptcha is comprehensively broken -- we
>> have had reports of sites with FancyCaptcha being spammed to death.
>> Pretty much any captcha can be broken for $1.39 per 1000. You wouldn't
>> need very many impressions per edit for that to be economical.
>>
> 
> Asirra works pretty well. I've never seen it fail to bring spam down to
> almost nil.

So, is there any open source solution?

-- Tim Starling



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